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Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
From: Daniel Roesen <dr () cluenet de>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:46:57 +0100
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:44:57AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
We have renumbered IPv6 space a couple of times when we were developing our addressing plan. (We have a /32.) Renumbering was pretty trivial for most systems, but servers requiring a fixed address were usually configured with an explicit prefix. This should not have been the case, but most people configured IPv6 addresses pretty much like IPv4 and specified the entire 128 bits. Of course, after a renumbering, this gets fixed, so those systems are usually OK the next time.
"specified the entire 128 bits"... how do you specify only part of it? What determines the rest? "fixed" as in "now using stateless autoconfig"? Fun... change NIC and you need to change DNS. Thanks, but no thanks. Not for non-mobile devices which need to be reachable with sessions initiated from remote (basically: servers). Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr () cluenet de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
Current thread:
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?], (continued)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Paul Vixie (Nov 22)
- RE: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Richard Jimmerson (Nov 14)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Daniel Roesen (Nov 14)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 14)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Michael . Dillon (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Jeroen Massar (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? alex (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Stephen Sprunk (Nov 13)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Paul Vixie (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Kevin Oberman (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- RE: IPV6 renumbering painless? Tony Hain (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Nils Ketelsen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Simon Leinen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Simon Leinen (Nov 12)
- KAME on IPv4? (was: Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?) Crist Clark (Nov 12)
- Re: KAME on IPv4? (was: Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?) Jeroen Massar (Nov 14)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Paul Vixie (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 12)