In message <capyk2_xonyrkqrlmjbvd26jscex5jdbjyqu3h_2sbbfvg3u...@mail.gmail.com>, Harald Koch writes: > On 26 January 2013 17:38, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > As for "breaking" your LAN, if the applications take 60 seconds to > > fallback to the other address they were already broken. Go complain > > to your application vendor. Some vendors have already fixed this > > problem with their applications. > > The question was about *enterprise* deployment, which raises two issues: > > 1) most vendors are waiting for customer IPv6 demand before > implementing support (or fixing bugs) - chicken and egg problem.
This is not a IPv6 bug. The bug is present in IPv4 only networks. It is a bug in the applications multi-homing support. Adding IPv6 just makes every destination multi-homed. Just think about how much money has already been spent to work around this bug. > 2) I don't know many enterprises running production software less than > a year (or more) old. > > In the meantime, the network engineers struggling with this stuff need > workarounds (like the tuning parameters you and others have > mentioned). > > -- > Harald > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
