On 2012-09-04, Remi Locherer <remi.loche...@relo.ch> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:29:02PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Remi Locherer <remi.loche...@relo.ch> wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:47:39AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: >> >> Le 2012-08-31 03:19, Remi Locherer a ?crit : >> >> >I rented a server from Hetzner where I installed OpenBSD 5.1. Hetzner >> >> >also >> >> >provides IPv6 but somehow with a strange setup. I got something like the >> >> >following from them: >> >> > >> >> >Gateway Address: 2001:db8:1:1110::1/64 >> >> >Subnet I can use: 2001:db8:1:1111/64 >> >> >> > This works. But I have to figure out (ask Hetzner) if I'm the only >> > customer they use 2001:db8:1:1110::/64 (I think so). >> >> I think the question I would have asked them is >> What does your box (2001:db8:1:1110::1) need in order for it to >> figure out how to send packets for my network (2001:db8:1:1111::/64) >> to my box? Does my box need to have a specific address or send >> out router advertisements? >> >> I.e., how is is their box going to know get the ethernet address of >> your box so that it can send the packets to it? > > I now got an answer from Hetzner: > - I'm not allowed to use an address from the gateway subnet. They will > block my traffic if I'm using such an address > - They recommend that I configure a /59 prefix. In my opinion this makes > no sense. I now configured a /63 prefix which contains my subnet and > the gateway subnet (this works). > > They did not explain how their gateway is configured to send traffic to > my host without configuring a specific address on my host. > > Remi > >
crazy. other large scale providers (e.g. dedibox) can manage to give people a /48 and do standard DHCP6 PD without this insanity...
