RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > > I've still yet to see an idea here that provided complete multihoming
> > > (i.e. ones that won't get filtered to uselessness)
> >
> > as i am not aware of anyone filtering v6 announcements at the moment
> > (well, other than maybe at /48 or something), perhaps this wg should
> > work on solutions to the routing problems presented and assume that,
> > if reasonable aggregation is one of those goals and is met, that the
> > isps will act rationally.
> 
> We had been announcing a /40 for a short period of time.  A month or two
> ago, we experienced unreachability to www.kame.net and found that filters
> were put in place to filter anything longer than /35 in one of the
> Japanese ISP's, such that 2001:420::/40 was no longer accepted.

And you think advertising it was rational?

Nope...

I want to announce my 6to4 /48 too but my neighbors won't let me :-(

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