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Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Tue, 03 June 2014 13:05 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]
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Hi,

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:39:43AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Extending HE to do multiple source addresses (one per prefix) within
> a adddress family will give pretty much the same robustness as
> running BGP at the cost of some embryonic connections if the initial
> attempt doesn't work.

It will give you *better* robustness than BGP, because BGP can not send
your packets around dataplane failures where control plane still advertises
reachability.

I find this very important to point out, again and again :-)

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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