----- Original Message ----- > The vastly better option is to obtain a prefix and ASN from ARIN and > merely trade BGP with your > upstream providers.
This is precisely what we are doing on the main network. We just want to keep the general browsing traffic separated. > Prefix translation comes with all the same disabilities that are > present when you do this in IPv4. > > In IPv4, everyone's software expects you to have a broken network > (NAT) and there is lots of extra > code in all of the applications to work around this. > > In iPv6, it is not unlikely that this code will eventually get > removed and you will then have a high > level of application problems in your "prefix-translated" > environment. I am hoping that this will eventually become a moot point for this particular installation, but as it is, the cable modem is $50/month for 15 Mb/s, and adding 15 Mb/s to the main network would cost around $3,000/month. It is really hard to justify. If we could BGP via the cable modem, that would be great, but they won't allow it :) -Randy
