[146923] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitry Cherkasov)
Mon Nov 28 06:38:17 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:37:16 +0200
From: Dmitry Cherkasov <doctorchd@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello everybody,
It is commonly agreed that /64 is maximal length for LANs because if
we use longer prefix we introduce conflict with stateless address
autoconfiguration (SLAAC) based on EUI-64 spec. But SLAAC is not used
in DOCSIS networks. So there seems to be no objections to use smaller
networks per cable interfaces of CMTS. I was not able to find any
recommendations anywhere including Cable Labs specs for using
prefixes not greater then /64 in DOCSIS networks. Some tech from ISP
assumed that DHCPv6 server may generate interface ID part of IPv6
address similarly to EUI-64 so MAC address of the device can easily be
obtained from its IPv6 address, but this does not seem like convincing
argument. What do you think?
Dmitry Cherkasov
