Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Thu Feb 3 12:58:43 UTC 2011


* Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo:

> The subject says it all... anyone with experience with a setup like
> this ?

Unicast addresses must be located in at least a /64 subnet.  No doubt
there are vendors which enforce this (perhaps even in the ASICs), so
deviating from this rule will result in some lock-in.

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