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Tayeb Meftah tayeb.meftah at gmail.com
Fri May 10 15:47:35 CEST 2013


Ole
How do bgp tunelling over 6to4 works?

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Le 10 mai 2013 à 15:02, Ole Troan <otroan at cisco.com> a écrit :

> Max,
>
>> I mentioned Slovenia as we have a request for BGP-enabled tunnel from
>> Slovenia ;) So for some reasons people still want to use BGP-enabled
>> tunnels in real life, even in conuntries with well implemented native IPv6.
>>
>> The second reason to use 6assist instead of regular TB it is not depend
>> of the actual load of tunnel server. If somebody download something huge
>> through a tunnel broker server - the other people just share the tiny
>> rest of the bandwidth...
>
> if you go down this path, you could rather do BGP tunnelling.
> as in run BGP sessions between the peers, exchange native IPv6 prefixes, but use a 6to4
> next-hop. that achieves the mesh properties you are looking for with an existing mechanism.
> of course someone will have to advertise a default route somewhere.
>
> cheers,
> Ole


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