[AusNOG] FW: [Ap-ipv6tf] official shutdown date for IPv4. The date he is pushing for is April 4, 2024. "IPv4 can't go on forever, " Latour said. "

Matt Palmer mpalmer at hezmatt.org
Thu Nov 6 09:57:27 EST 2014


On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:17:36PM +0000, Jonathan Thorpe wrote:
> This works well on IPv4 with NAT because you don't have to worry about
> changing address space on the LAN and can go as far as using PBR to
> distribute different types of traffic across Internet connections.
>
> From what I've seen, there's currently no workable way to do this with
> IPv6 on a LAN as there's no NAT.  While there's no NAT, we do apparently
> have NPTv6 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6296), but I'm yet to see any
> working implementations of this on any CPE or routing platform.

Advertise both links' prefix to the LAN, withdraw the prefix when the link
goes down.  Address selection will take care of picking a source address.

- Matt

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