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6Bone Mail
- Subject: 6Bone Mail
- From: [email protected] (Craig Metz)
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:45:06 -0400
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:23:40 PDT." <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, you write:
>>> => there are three solutions for the dynamic routing of the 6 bone:
>
> I say there is four.
>
> - Use static routing. Build a backbone of nodes so most connected (tail)
> sites use prefix 0/0 to get to the backbone. Their tunnel endpoint
> routers are configured with a /64 for the site (and other sites they
> connect). The backbone routers pass around /32 (routes on AS numbers
> only).
>
> This should hold us for a long time until the specs are stable.
This is exactly what is being done now, and it works just fine.
I will make one critical correction, however: leaves should use a
"default" route of 5f00::0/8 to help prevent implementation bugs from causing
bogon (multicast, link-local, IPv4-compatible, etc.) addresses from going down
tunnels.
-Craig