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Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Feb 3 07:59:37 2011

To: carlos@lacnic.net
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:58:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=sh+gPPHoNKwME2u5zMpaS9uO20gUfZKoaSx9d@mail.gmail.com>
	(Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo's message of "Mon\,
	24 Jan 2011 10\:59\:59 -0200")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

* Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo:

> The subject says it all... anyone with experience with a setup like
> this ?

Unicast addresses must be located in at least a /64 subnet.  No doubt
there are vendors which enforce this (perhaps even in the ASICs), so
deviating from this rule will result in some lock-in.

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