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Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Fri Nov 19 13:52:07 2004

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:41:20 -0500
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@hotnic.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041119172510.GA15601@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Leo Bicknell wrote:

> With the exception of auto-configuration, I have yet to see any
> IPv6 gear that cares about prefix length.  Configuring a /1 to a
> /128 seems to work just fine.  If anyone knows of gear imposing
> narrower limits on what can be configured I'd be facinated to know
> about them.
> 

64 bit prefixes are the mattress tags of IPv6 interfaces.

--
Kevin Loch

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