Re: Fwd: Re: ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Ciprian Popoviciu wrote:
> @@
> Yes, this the way to do it for a scalable deployment. One way to look at the 
> option mentioned by Pekka:
>
> " 2) checking whether providing a single, shared /64 for all the customers 
> would work (what if there are address conflicts?  what about communication 
> inside the prefix?  does this work?)"
>
> is  to see it as a NBMA network made of multiple PPPoE sessions terminated on 
> the same edge router where the initiators of the sessions are assigned 
> addresses from the same /64 i.e. similar to IPv4. If the users are 
> authenticated locally and provided addresses from the pools defined on the 
> router then the RADIUS is not needed and for this reason we mentioned it here 
> and not under option 4). This option is simply for the sake of discussing the 
> perspective without bringing in the RADIUS but for a production deployments, 
> RADIUS is the natural way to do it as you mentioned.
>
> Pekka, did you have something else in mind with option 2), something for 
> which the PPP NBMA model discussed in the draft is not representative? 
> Something more down the lines of IPv4 RBE like environment?
> @@

Yes, I was referring to IPv4 RBE-like environment, where PPP(oE) is 
not used.

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