[c-nsp] IPv6 RTBH next-hop

Billy Guthrie bg at billyguthrie.com
Sat Jun 12 16:49:23 EDT 2010


RFC3849  specifically states it is reserved for Documentation (Not that 
one can't use it); however, in my opinion
it makes more sense to use a prefix from from fc00::/7 (RFC4193)

If anyone is interested:
Here is code that will assist in generating a prefix: 
http://www.kame.net/~suz/gen-ula.sh


Billy


Oliver Gorwits wrote:
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> On 12/06/2010 18:49, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> According to RFC5156, the Documentation Prefix address range of
>> 2001:db8::/32 appears to be the IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 TEST-NET,
>> so it would probably make sense to use this address range in the same
>> way TEST-NET has been used for S/RTBH.
>>     
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> Many thanks indeed to all that replied, 2001:db8::/32 certainly looks to
> be just the ticket.
>
> - -- 
> Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group
> Oxford University Computing Services
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