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Re: IPv6 Anycast has been killed by LINUX patch in 2016 - who cares?

Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> Mon, 09 August 2021 09:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv6 Anycast has been killed by LINUX patch in 2016 - who cares?
From: Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:18:33 +0200
Cc: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
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To: Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com>
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> On 8. Aug 2021, at 21:28, Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Peace,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2021, 10:03 PM David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> wrote:
> While I agree with you, anycast is an important capability in the Internet architecture
> 
> This is sort of an achievement already given some reckless claims on the IETF mailing list!  Thank you.
> 
> 
> nevertheless it has many limitations, and is not the panacea you claim it to be, even for DDoS. 
> 
> If you consider the client-server model, it *is* the panacea, fundamentally, but I agree that p2p and other models of communications might require something else.  My bad, didn't consider these before.
> 
> 
> Furthermore, I’m not sure what you or the original reporter of this problem expect the IETF to do to fix the problem that was reported.
> 
> Honestly, I've just been answering the questions other people have, sharing my experience.
> 
> I, too, believe the practical discussion rather belongs to LKML.
No sure. In my view this feature of Linux seems to have some use cases at least in some specific environments.
So it might make sense to implement it also in other OSes, which might be used in similar use cases.

Best regards
Michael
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> Töma

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