Re: IPv6 Anycast has been killed by LINUX patch in 2016 - who cares?

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Peace,

On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:50 AM Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think
> that the same rationale could be applied that anycast should be
> unnecessary in IPv6 because there is a lot of address space to work
> with.

No, that doesn't work

> For instance, instead of defining anycast endpoints behind one
> address and hoping that the network can consistently route packets
> based on per-connection layer transport information, why not just
> embed the transport layer information in the IP address?

Because DDoS, as has been pointed out in this thread a dozen times

--
Töma





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