IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
Roland Dobbins
rdobbins at arbor.net
Thu Oct 9 21:18:33 UTC 2014
On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:13 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> My colleges wanted to completely drop using public IP addressing in the infrastructure.
Your colleagues are wrong. Again, see RFC6752.
> I am wondering if all the nay sayers would not agree that is it better to have a single public loopback address shared between all my interfaces, than to go with private addressing completely?
This is a false dichotomy.
> Because frankly, that is the alternative.
It isn't the only alternative. The *optimal* alternative is to use publicly-routable link addresses, and then protect your infrastructure using iACLs, GTSM, CoPP, et. al.
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