Interconnects
bmanning at karoshi.com
bmanning at karoshi.com
Sat May 18 00:03:56 UTC 2002
>
> > Often, participants expect to have an IP address assigned for their
> > use on an exchange. Usually these delegations are from a common
> > block. Where they are not, its hard to tell an exchange from a
> > bunch of point2point links. LINX and PAIX have IPv6 prefixes that
> > participants can use.
>
> or, use link-local address on IX switch as documented in
> draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-01.txt.
>
Unfortunatly, that technique does not have broad commercial
implementation. In addition, there was some pushback from
the IETF IDR wg on using this technique. So its still a bit
"iffy", although a very elegent "haq". (we used it in LA
for a while but could not get folks to adopt it.)
> itojun
--bill
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