[141600] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Jun 9 12:59:02 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <FF08A2D0-4DE7-4F18-B08A-A3F5179DCE5B@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:56:05 +0200
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Kelly Setzer <Kelly.Setzer@wnco.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9 jun 2011, at 10:32, Owen DeLong wrote:
> You can actually use DHCPv6 to assign addresses to hosts dynamically
> on longer than /64 networks.
The trouble is that DHCPv6 can't tell you the prefix length for your =
address, so either set up the routers to advertise this prefix (but =
without the autonomous autoconfiguration flag set) or prepare for =
surprising results.
I say: life is too short to fiddle with this kind of stuff, just use =
/64, at least for everything that isn't a point-to-point link or =
loopback address.=
