Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)

[morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
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>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:21:41 PDT, George Bonser said:
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>>> With v6, while changing prefixes is easy for some gear, other gear is
>>> not so easy. ?If you number your entire network in Provider A's space,
>>> you might have more trouble renumbering into Provider B's space because
>>> now you have to change your DHCP ranges, probably visit printers, fax
>>> machines, wireless gateways, etc. and renumber those, etc. ?And some
>>> production boxes that you might have in the office data center are
>>> probably best left at a static IP address, particularly if they are
>>> fronted by a load balancer where their IP is manually configured.
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>> "If Woody had gone straight to a ULA prefix, this would never have happened..."
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> Or better yet, if Woody had gone straight to PI, he wouldn't have this problem,
> either.

ula really never should an option... except for a short lived lab,
nothing permanent.