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Re: IPv6 Newbie

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Apr 6 03:45:43 2010

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:44:52 +0100
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
To: shake righa <ssrigha@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> different documentation state that clients be given /64 with ISP's beign
> given /48 from assigned global /32.

That should be that ISPs are given a global /32 from which they
assign /48s to clients. The client would assign a /64 to each LAN segment.

> Can one subnet to include /127 for point to point connections?

The best advice is to use a /64 unless you have read and understood
RFC 3627 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3627

> Is there any newbie guide for ipv6 subnetting?

http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/IPv6_Addressing_Plans

--Michael Dillon


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