[Novalug] [Ma-linux] IPV6 Questions

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 16:17:48 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Serge Wroclawski <serge at wroclawski.org> wrote:
> I hope we don't end up with an IPv6 NAT. As you pointed out, in IPv6,
> you always have a 64 bit subnet. IPv6 at home assumes that you'll be
> on an autoconfigured network and I suspect you'll see applications
> assume they have proper address space, so ISPs will have an incentive
> to do the right thing since it won't cost them any money (IPs will be
> plentiful) and it should reduce support cost.

Ah, yes, thanks.  I was thinking there were 64bits total, but it's
128.  So yeah, most significant 64bits for the router, least
significant 64bits for you.

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