using "reserved" IPv6 space
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Tue Jul 17 04:26:00 UTC 2012
You could try this:
If you give a /48 to each site, then assign the sites primary and backup firewalls.
Aggregate the /48s into larger blocks by primary firewall.
Aggregate the primary firewall bocks into larger backup firewall aggregates.
Advertise the firewall-specific aggregates and the less specific backup-firewall set
aggregates.
Owen
On Jul 16, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 7/15/12, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>>> I feel like I should be able to do something really nice with an
>>> absurdly large address space. But lack of imagination or whatever.. I
>>> haven't come up with anything that really appeals to me.
>>
>> Use a fresh IP for every HTTP request, email message, and IM. Just think of
>> how well you can do error management.
>
> hrmm... nope, can't think of a single thing. Then again, I'm on the
> routing & switching team at work, so things like HTTP requests, email
> messages, and IM are just different types of user traffic that needs
> to be routed to me.
>
> Recall the message I was responding to:
>
>>>> There is a HUGE difference between IPv4 and IPv6 thinking. We've all
>>>> been living in an austerity regime for so long that we've completely
>>>> forgotten how to leave parsimony behind. Even those of us who worked
>>>> at companies that were summarily handed a Class B when we mumbled
>>>> something about "internal subnetting" have a really hard time
>>>> remembering how to act when we suddenly don't have to answer for every
>>>> single host address and can design a network to conserve other things
>>>> (like our brain cells).
>
> I read it as design a network >>addressing scheme<< to conserve other
> things & was hoping someone could share new ways of looking at it. I
> feel like I'm stuck in "IPv4 think" with an addressing plan that's
> basically
>
> Each site gets a /48. Even the ones with less than 200 people.
> Each subnet is assigned a /64 except for loopbacks & p2p subnets.
> First 256 subnets in each /48 are reserved for things like loopback
> addresses, p2p links, switch management subnets, etc.
> High order 4 bits of the site address are used for the subnet type.
> So a /52 tells you the site and if it's users, printers, servers, IP
> phones, or whatever.
>
> Which is *boring*. Nothing novel, no breaking out of "IPv4 think"
> aside from massively wasting address space. Which brings me back
> around to my original request for suggestions. What's the new way of
> looking at designing a network addressing scheme?
>
> Regards,
> Lee
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