[114244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Mon May 4 23:04:59 2009
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2skjkb6xt.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 13:04:49 +1000
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On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 04:49 +0200, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I'm with you. I wish vendors and spec designers would just get over it=
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> > and let people subnet however they want.
> [...]
> do other than 64 and you do not get auto-conf. some do not consider
> this a loss, others do.
This is an important distinction.
- you CAN subnet however you like, with any number of bits in
your prefixes
- autoconfiguration will work only in subnets with a 64 bit prefix.
The two matters are quite independent of each other, as far as I can
tell.
Regards, K.
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