[143186] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Aug 2 13:24:48 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110802143239.028B31261C13@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:17:42 -0700
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ether 60:33:4b:01:75:85
> inet6 fe80::6233:4bff:fe01:7585%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
> inet 192.168.191.223 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.191.255
> inet6 fd92:7065:b8e::6233:4bff:fe01:7585 prefixlen 64 autoconf
> inet6 2001:470:1f00:820:6233:4bff:fe01:7585 prefixlen 64 autoconf
> media: autoselect
> status: active
>
> Note the multiple prefixes. IPv6 is not just IPv4 with bigger addresses.
> If you want to give your printers, etc. stable IPv6 addesses use ULAs.
>
Icky.
Better yet, just subscribe to an ISP that will give you a static prefix.
Owen
