In message <ca5dea74.158185%[email protected]>, "Brzozowski, Jo
hn" writes:
> This is something that should be today as part of broadband IPv6
> deployments to prevent conflict at the service provider edge.  I cannot
> think of a good reason why I would want to accept IPv6 router
> advertisements, at this time from residential gateways.

If they advertise the /64's of the /56 they are using you can filter
the unrequested traffic and also prevent looping packets when they
send the rest of the /56 back to you.  If we don't do something
like this the border CPE router has to have a null route covering
the /56 (or whatever upstream has delegated to it) which would be
a good thing to do regardless.

Seeing the /64's also gives you a insight into whether you can
allocate on the /60 boundary or not.  Similarly if you need to
start planning for /52's rather than /56's.

Mark

> John
> 
> On 8/2/11 1:47 AM, "Michael Newbery" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >It's outside the CPE spec, but I can see that the document could state,
> >as an assumption, that the ISP will filter routing advertisements from
> >the CPE and will only pass those that it has determined (via some
> >external mechanism, undefined in this document) belong to the CPE.
> 
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