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Re: ISP customer assignments

  • From: Chris Hills
  • Date: Tue Oct 13 09:58:02 2009

On 13/10/09 15:33, Justin Shore wrote:
He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's
coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to
whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll
write back when we get into that discussion.
Anything other than /64 removes the possibility of using privacy (aka temporary) addresses, enabled on Vista and above by default (net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr on Linux). For a single prefix a host may have by default up to 8 global unicast addresses - 1 EUI-64 and 7 privacy.






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