[147874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sat Dec 24 02:09:30 2011
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:08:22 +0100 (CET)
To: glen.kent@gmail.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UPJqwrqeOJornSAEQjNa=b7BOB6r3XZWugHUGyLAsq9Wg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> I am not sure if this is the reason as this only applies to the link
> local IP address. One could still assign a global IPv6 address. So,
> why does basic IPv6 (ND process, etc) break if i use a netmask of say
> /120?
As long as you assign addresses statically, IPv6 works just fine with a
netmask > 64. We've been using this for several years now. No problem.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
