[6bone] IPv6 Drawbacks

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:51:18 +0100


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0500,
 Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org> wrote 
 a message of 23 lines which said:

> I'd add to the list the lack of a scalable multihoming solution (something 
> being hotly debated).
...
>  You can multihome today, but you
> basically have to become a provider to do so.

In that respect, IPv6 is no different from IPv4. Either you are a LIR,
you have an AS, you have PI and you do BGP with your upstreams or you
rely on a funny variety of hacks (source routing and so on).