Little question

Bob Fink fink@es.net
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:48:37 -0800


Matteo,

At 05:48 PM 1/10/2002 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
>Hi to all, i have a little question:
>while reading rfc 2546 regarding 6bone routing practice, i don't 
>understand very well what does it means when says "Site border router MUST 
>NOT advertise prefixes more specific than the /48 ones allocated by their 
>ISP."

RFC2546 is obsolete and replaced by RFC2772. You should read section 4 and 
then ask me specific questions you may have.


>I was looking in several rfcs regarding ipv6 about the possibility for 
>request a pTla using a private As number or the AS from the upstream 
>provider (reference to rfc2270, "Using a Dedicated AS for Sites  Homed to 
>a Single Provider").

We do not allocate pTLAs unless the requester has their own AS number for 
their exclusive IPv6 use (their IPv4 ASN will do).


Bob