[ipv6-wg] New version (or followup) of RIPE-501 document...

On 06/20/2011 12:40 PM, Tim Chown wrote:
> I think load balancers should be included; I know some universities who did not take part in W6D not because their web servers couldn't be made v6 ready, but because their load balancers could not.


Although the thread may deviate a bit, since we got into the topic of
load balancers, does anyone have any pointers or references to work
describing how load balancers can/should operate in an IPv6 environment?

The reasons for asking are:

- we need such references to include in RIPE-501
- in the IPv4 world a lot of the load balancing logic has to do
with NAT. In IPv6, NAT should be a forbidden notion. Of course someone
could just terminate connections and open new ones in backend farms of
machines effectively acting as an application layer proxy.

Regards,

Kostas