But would there be a problem in using any legitimate /48 prefix instead? Brian
Mike Saywell wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've only just joined the list - I'm mailing about the proposed abandoning > of site locals because I'd like to use them! > > Basically I'm involved in setting up a community wireless network in > Southampton, UK. The wireless network itself is a fully routed mesh > using private (10.13/16) addresses, the long term goal is to get ISPs > to provide internet gateways which you connect to via a VPN, PPPoE or > some other method, over which you get a public address. > > We'd like to start running v6 on the network alongside the 10.13 addresses > and site-locals seem like the most sensible choice since it's the only > allocation of v6 addresses which is going to be available for us to use > and which is large enough to accomodate a /48 per access point (of which > there could be hundreds). Obviously the same internet access model could > be used so you would get a public prefix over the PPPoE connection. > > The site-local addresses would only be used for traffic contained within > the the wireless mesh, if some areas offered open internet access then > they could advertise an additional prefix routed from their own internet > connection, thus avoiding any NAT. > > Well, that's my use and case for Site-Locals in a nut-shell! I realise > that this type of deployment is quite a rare case, but I think it > represents a legitimate use of private addresses. > > By the way, another option which would work very well in this type > of scenario is the geographical based addressing - > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-ipv6-pi-addr-use-03.txt > > Thanks, > > Mike Saywell > > Southampton Open Wireless Network > http://www.sown.org.uk > > PhD Student, Dept ECS, Southampton UK. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
