[114241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon May 4 22:49:10 2009
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 04:49:02 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.utfdabqhtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> "64bit MAC" -- which pretty much exists nowhere. It's a repeat of the
> mistakes from IPv4's early days: CLASSFUL ROUTING.
>
> I'm with you. I wish vendors and spec designers would just get over it
> and let people subnet however they want.
you can. there was a bit of a war in the ietf some years back, and yhe
64 bit boundary is a convention. hardware must route and forward on 128
bits.
do other than 64 and you do not get auto-conf. some do not consider
this a loss, others do.
> So far, Cisco's gear is the only IPv6 routers I've messed with. And
> they will not let you set an interface to anything smaller than a /64.
i wonder what strange gear you tried. all routers, cisco and other, i
play with operate on 128 bits.
randy
