> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:43:14PM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: > > What you need to multihome is either BGP or NAT. Exactly as in IPv4. > > Nothing has changed. The only new thing with IPv6 is that there's > > more bits. > > Oh? I have two internet connections plugged directly into my desktop box > at home, it is multihomed and there is no BGP or NAT. This does need > some policy routing to work with uRPF filtered access lines. > > With IPv6 multihoming should work trivially: plug two access lines into > a switch, get RAs from both, get addresses from both on your end-host, > and your end-host needs to select the proper route for each source > address. Again, no NAT or BGP. Applications will need to support hosts > having multiple addresses in the future, and happy eyeballs seems to > have made browsers do that.
What happens if one of your links goes down for a day? Do all your ssh sessions to everywhere in the world stay up? The internet has non-transient traffic, too.
