Dave,

On 08/11/2012 12:57, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Ted Lemon wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Brian E Carpenter
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Fine, but when such an end customer buys a second router and plugs it in,
>>>> will she get an error message that says "Please find a new ISP"?
>>>
>>> In this case I think our only option is to fall back to bridging.
>>
>> Yes, doing protocol based brinding (L2 bridge 0x86dd packets) is the only
>> way to go as far as I can tell.
> 
> Um, er, ah, no, for many years now there has been the AHCP + babeld,
> which routes /128s out of a /64 across any sort of wired/wireless
> network over as many hops as needed.
> 
> I've been doing my best to ignore this discussion, and work on
> improving that code.

Code is good, but where is the spec that we can refer to? As far as
I can tell there's only an expired draft:
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-chroboczek-ahcp-00.txt
and RFC 6126, which is Experimental.

> 
> You guys can beat your brains out over dhcp's approaches all you want,
> and expect your ISPs in a cloudy future to deliver something bigger
> than a /64 ...

Some ISPs will do that much sooner.

     Brian

> 
> and bridge low speed wifi over high speed ethernet all you want -
> 
> - but me, I kind of like being able to move transparently from AP to
> AP and from wired to wireless and back again, and to not need anything
> bigger than a /64 to do it.
> 
> Given the trends towards excessive dynamicism throughout the IPv6
> deployment, and the naming issues, and various ways proposed to
> monetize/make scarce /sub 64 allocations by the ISPS. I think the
> market will pick ipv6 nat and something like AHCP.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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