[135370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Mon Jan 24 09:26:24 2011
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:12 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
In-Reply-To: <20110124132825.GB10465@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com (bmanning) writes:
> as a test case, i built a small home network out of /120. works just fine.
> my home network has been native IPv6 for about 5 years now, using a /96 and IVI.
>
> some thoughts. disable RD/RA/ND.
> none of the DHCPv6 code works like DHCP, so I re-wrote
> client and server code so that it does.
> static address assignment is a good thing for services like DNS/HTTP
> secure dynmaic update is your friend
>
> summary - its not easy, vendors don't want to help. but it can be done.
Right - /64 is an assumption that's hardcoded many places.
But it does work.
