[135511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fernando Gont)
Wed Jan 26 02:40:45 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:30:38 -0300
From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcZavnJN2gqayS2-piDvOAcw_nrJAREJ0EDTjp@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 24/01/2011 05:53 p.m., Ray Soucy wrote:
> Every time I see this question it' usually related to a fundamental
> misunderstanding of IPv6 and the attempt to apply v4 logic to v6.
>
> That said. Any size prefix will likely work and is even permitted by
> the RFC. You do run the risk of encountering applications that assume
> a 64-bit prefix length, though. And you're often crippling the
> advantages of IPv6.
Just curious: What are the advantages you're referring to?
Thanks,
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