Re: [GLOBAL-V6] IPV4 to IPv6 migration

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:49:45AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> >And this is actually where IPv6 could make renumbering a lot easier,  
> >as
> >IPv6 hosts are expected to cope with multiple addresses in parallel.
> 
> Can you point to code that actually does this?  (I'm sure some exists,  
> I just haven't seen it)

Huh?  I'm not sure I understand that question.  I see multiple v6 addresses
on my machines all the time - so the networking code on Linux, FreeBSD,
Windows, MacOS definitely handles it.

Just advertise a second prefix via RA from your v6 router, and watch your
machines happily auto-configure two global v6 addresses...

Now, whether the combination of "multiple source addresses and multiple
destination addresses" usually leads to "the optimum pair being used for
a given connection" is a completely different question - and as far as
I understand, *that* part is really lacking.

Gert Doering
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