Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Alain Durand
On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A properly > implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a > 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, while a > native client will take the direct path. Not quite. Say the ser

Re: virtual aggregation in IETF

2008-07-20 Thread Alain Durand
Paul, Can this proposal be applied to IS-IS (or other IGP) as well as BGP? - Alain. On 7/20/08 8:46 AM, "Paul Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gang, > > I have submitted an internet-draft to the IDR group on virtual aggregation > (VA) (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-francis

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Durand
On 8/19/08 1:36 PM, "Nathan Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 64 bits is not a magical boundary. > > 112 bits is widely recommended for linknets, for example. > > 64 bits is common, because of EUI-64 and friends. That's it. > There is nothing, anywhere, that says that the first 64 bits is fo

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Durand
On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In practice, many routers require the packet to go twice in the hardware if >> the prefix length is > 64 bits, so even though it is a total waste of space, >> it is not stupid to use /64 for point-to-point links and even for loo

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Durand
or all models of all vendors. YMMV. - Alain. On 8/19/08 4:22 PM, "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:30:38 -0400 >> From: Alain Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]&