Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:
I don't see how such an architectural limitation can be enforced.
There is no way that the IETF can prevent an ISP issuing IPv6
customers a /128 if they choose.
Not directly, but there's the indirect route: a) IETF designs IPv6
autoconfiguration. b) Linksys, D-Link, Netgear and friends make boxes
that support autoconfiguration. c) ISP hand out /128s. d)
Autoconfiguration doesn't work well. e) Customers call ISP support. f)
ISP loses $$$. g) ISP starts issuing /48s instead.
I don't know the first thing about how IPv6 autoconfiguration works. It
worked very well in my previous office. Will it work better when the
router has a /48 at hand than a /64 or /128?
Arnt
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I remember working with my own little lan:
three Site Local and one tunnel networks.
radvd or SuSE 7.1 and SuSE 8.2 did expect /64
The tunnel would either give me a /64 without local router
or a /48 if I had a local router.
Today Site Local is given up. So I changed to 192.168...
addresses with 6to4 addressing.
RFC 2462 says we normally have EUI-64 addressing that is
either a funtion of the MAC address or a random number.
With EUI-64 (64 bits) the prefix must be /64 for an
autoconfigured network segment.
The tunnel used to be a /124 network segment
overlapping my /64 with ..0 the net, ..1 the other
end of the tunnel, ..2 me and ..3 broadcast.
Theoretically ..2 would have been a router for anything
in my /64, but that never worked. So practically I
ended up with a /128
If you have a LAN with servers you need predictable
addresses for your servers. Renumbering is not an
option. Site Local does not exist any longer. 182.168..
with 6to4 addressing is the only way I see. But
that means - no autoconfiguration.
Without autoconfiguration /124 and NAT is good enough
for me. But how about my aunt with her laptop?
Kind regards
Peter and Karin
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