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   Dmitry Protasoff to Victor Sudakov   
   Two ISPs and backup for a home network (   
   29 Jun 21 00:08:20   
   
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   Hello, Victor!   
      
   Monday June 28 2021 21:07, you wrote to All:   
      
    VS> What if I had two IPv6-capable ISPs for my home, and a /64 or a /56   
    VS> from each of them? Is it possible to setup a backup link this way?   
      
   Sure.   
      
    VS> I know that my home router can advertise multiple global IPv6 prefixes   
    VS> into the LAN, but how will LAN hosts failover to the backup gateway if   
    VS> the primary ISP fails? They will have IPv6 addresses from both blocks,   
    VS> which should they choose for their outgoing src address?   
      
   NPTv6 is the answer (RFC 6296).   
   Not sure if your router can handle it.   
      
   Best regards,   
                dp.   
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