Where to buy Internet IP addresses
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Tue May 5 02:49:02 UTC 2009
> "64bit MAC" -- which pretty much exists nowhere. It's a repeat of the
> mistakes from IPv4's early days: CLASSFUL ROUTING.
>
> I'm with you. I wish vendors and spec designers would just get over it
> and let people subnet however they want.
you can. there was a bit of a war in the ietf some years back, and yhe
64 bit boundary is a convention. hardware must route and forward on 128
bits.
do other than 64 and you do not get auto-conf. some do not consider
this a loss, others do.
> So far, Cisco's gear is the only IPv6 routers I've messed with. And
> they will not let you set an interface to anything smaller than a /64.
i wonder what strange gear you tried. all routers, cisco and other, i
play with operate on 128 bits.
randy
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