multiple prefixes

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Feb 11 21:38:15 CET 2013


On 02/11/2013 12:31 PM, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Doug Barton
>
>> PI is not a universal solution. There are myriad enterprises that
>> cannot, and/or do not want to deal with BGP.
>
> Running BGP isn't a requirement for using PI prefixes. There's no reason
> why your provider(s) can't originate your PI prefixes into the DFZ on
> your behalf. We do this for a couple of our customers without any issues.

I'm aware of that, but that's still not a universal solution, even if 
the [RL]IRs would hand out the allocation.

ULA + NPTv6 addresses the situation nicely, without the problems 
associated with NAT, and with all the convenience of not having to 
renumber.

Doug



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