multiple prefixes

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 09:17:27 CET 2013


On 11/02/2013 20:38, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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, 

It beats me how you can avoid the need for an ALG for FTP, for example.
See page 6 of RFC 6296.

   Brian


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