[118159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hills)
Tue Oct 13 09:58:58 2009
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:51:07 +0200
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On 13/10/09 15:33, Justin Shore wrote:
> He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's
> coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to
> whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll
> write back when we get into that discussion.
Anything other than /64 removes the possibility of using privacy (aka
temporary) addresses, enabled on Vista and above by default
(net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr on Linux). For a single prefix a host
may have by default up to 8 global unicast addresses - 1 EUI-64 and 7
privacy.
