Moving to IPv6

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:55:14AM +0000, Anton Verevkin wrote:
> Sorry for that, I was wrong. Even though Nagios core is not perl, but a 
> gcc-compiled binary, I totally forgot that main Nagios communication is
> done with agents - small modular programs, that can easily be converted
> to ipv6
> 
> I agree that for me it is probably more of a psychological thing. I really
> wish to get to IPv6 ASAP, but am probably afraid somewhere deep inside and
> thus imagine more and more difficulties.
> 
> 
> I would like to seek for advice from IPv6-gurus on the following. Imagine
> you
> have a network, too small to make BGP-peering with the ISPs, but this
> network
> still wants to have multihoming with two internet connections. Let's say
> with
> Bell and Rogers, or with Acanac and Teksavvy :). Imagine all of them already
> provide you with both ipv4 and ipv6.
> 
> In the IPv4 case they would give you one IP address each that you set on
> different NICs of your router and make some logic to NAT outgoing
> connections
> to one IP or another. Reply packets get back through the same connection
> where they originated.
> 
> In case of IPv6 both ISPs provide you with subnet prefixes. Which prefix you
> would set up in your LAN? How would you do the routing? No doubt we do not
> want NAT here, or else why switching from IPv4? We would also want to avoid 
> tunnels in the final solution, for tunnels are for the transition period,
> right? 
> And for sure we do not want to have a custom solution from the ISPs as it
> would 
> cost ten times as much. Is there maybe a totally different way of fixing
> this?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,

IPv6 multihoming is a work in progress and not done yet unfortunately.

All the proposals seem to have big disadvantages to them.

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