[Battlemesh] Session about multi-homed IPv6 mesh networks and auto-configuration

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 17:24:43 CEST 2016


one problem hnetd does not handle at the moment is the concept of
having a metric ton of prefixes available to choose from and selecting
an appropriate subset to use and redistribute. Consider a network with
1000 routers and 100 exit nodes - you might want 3-5 prefixes per
router to give you 3-5 possible exits, and rotate around them over
time. Otherwise you end up carrying a lot of routing traffic for ipv6
addresses that are mostly unused.

Also consider a network where the available exit prefixes are, like, a
/60 and thus individual exit nodes cannot supply enough prefixes to
cover all the routers in the first place.

Hncp also wants to assign those real addresses to itself, and doesn't
cope with p2p assignment in the spec (tho julius extended it to /128s
I think) I am actually not huge on global reachability for internal
routers and would prefer ULAs, maybe grabbing a real ipv6 address for
long enough to get an update, that's it.



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