Traffic Engineering in Multihomed Sites

It is expected that IPv6 multihomed sites will obtain as many global prefixes as direct providers they have, so Traffic Engineering techniques currently used in IPv4 multihomed sites will no longer be suitable. However, Traffic Engineering is required for several reasons, and in particular, for being able to properly support multimedia communications. In this paper1 we present a framework for Traffic Engineering in IPv6 multihomed sites with multiple global prefixes. Within this framework, we have included several tools such as DNS record manipulation and proper configuration of the Policy Table defined in RFC 3484. To provide automation in the management of Traffic Engineering, we will analyze the usage of two mechanisms to configure the Policy Table.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISCC
• Authors: Marcelo Bagnulo, Alberto García-Martínez, Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Isaias Martinez, Arturo Azcorra
• Keywords: Communications, Global Prefixes, ISCC 2005, Multihomed, Traffic Engineering