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Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
From: eric clark <cabenth () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:35:46 -0800
Figure I'll throw my 2 cents into this. The way I read the RFCs, IPv6 is not IP space. Its network space. Unless I missed it last time I read through them, the RFCs do not REQUIRE hardware/software manufacturers to support VLSM beyond /64. Autoconfigure the is the name of the game for the IPv6 guys. Subsequently, while using longer prefixes is possible currently, I'd never deploy it because it could be removed from code without mention. Because of the AutoConfigure piece, I consider IPv6 to be NETWORK Space, rather than IP Space like IPv4. I'm issued a /48 which can be comprised of 65536 /64 networks, not some silly number of hosts, which can't exist because they are all duplicates of each other (MAC address = host identifier) Anyway, that's how I see the question that started this whole thing, I'd suggest using link local and RFC 4193 for internal routing and your public space for things that need public access or need to be accessed publicly. Just because they SAY there's infinite space (like they said about IPv4) doesn't mean we have to be stupid and wasteful with our space. -C If I've misread, or completely missed an RFC, I apologize.
Current thread:
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN, (continued)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Mark Smith (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Adrian Chadd (Jan 25)
- RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN George Bonser (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Roland Dobbins (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Mark Smith (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Roland Dobbins (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Mark Smith (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Karl Auer (Jan 26)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN eric clark (Jan 31)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 31)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Michael Dillon (Jan 31)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 31)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Ray Soucy (Jan 26)
- RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN George Bonser (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Matthew Petach (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Matthew Petach (Jan 31)