[136491] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Thu Feb 3 11:10:11 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:08:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikixSJLZ-dMrgkVHYP5h9HdNjKX2YtWdUKE5hor@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: <trejrco@gmail.com>, "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you're on a DoD classified network that spans multiple facilities (as
a contractor we only get access to certain ones, and only certain hosts
are allowed to access them). Self contained networks are our problem.
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: TJ [mailto:trejrco@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:39 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 08:11, Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com> wrote:
> Our classified networks aren't ever going to be connected to anything
> but themselves either, and they need sane local addressing. Some of
> them are a single room with a few machines, some of them are entire
> facilities with hundreds of machines, but none of them are going to be
> talking to a router or anything upstream, as neither of those exist on
> said networks.
>
Correct me if I am wrong, but won't Classified networks will get their
addresses IAW the DoD IPv6 Addressing Plan (using globals)?
/TJ
