Where to buy Internet IP addresses
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Tue May 5 03:04:49 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 04:49 +0200, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I'm with you. I wish vendors and spec designers would just get over it
> > and let people subnet however they want.
> [...]
> do other than 64 and you do not get auto-conf. some do not consider
> this a loss, others do.
This is an important distinction.
- you CAN subnet however you like, with any number of bits in
your prefixes
- autoconfiguration will work only in subnets with a 64 bit prefix.
The two matters are quite independent of each other, as far as I can
tell.
Regards, K.
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