Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:07:50PM +, Paul Zugnoni wrote: Curious whether it's commonplace to find systems that automatically regard .0 and .255 IP addresses (ipv4) as src/dst in packets as traffic that should be considered invalid. On a separate note, one of my customers

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Laidlaw
RFC 2526 reserves the last 128 host addresses in each subnet for anycast use. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote: Hello, On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:07:50PM +, Paul Zugnoni wrote: Curious whether it's commonplace to find systems that automatically regard

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, RFC 2526 reserves the last 128 host addresses in each subnet for anycast use. But that would mean that the ...:fffe address also shouldn't work. Considering RFC 2526 then filtering those addresses when used as source address makes sense. - Sander PS: I'm in contact with a network

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:16:48AM -0500, Rob Laidlaw wrote: RFC 2526 reserves the last 128 host addresses in each subnet for anycast use. D'oh, I didn't even think to check for reserved addresses. Thanks. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Jones
On 23 October 2012 14:16, Rob Laidlaw laid...@consecro.com wrote: RFC 2526 reserves the last 128 host addresses in each subnet for anycast use. IPv4 addresses ending in .0 and .255 can't be used either because the top and bottom addresses of a subnet are unusable. Why would hetzner be making

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Marc Storck
IPv4 addresses ending in .0 and .255 can't be used either because the top and bottom addresses of a subnet are unusable. Only true if speaking of /24, but with the appearance of CIDR 19 years ago, this is not true anymoreŠ The .255 and .0 in the center of a /23 are perfectly usable see an

Re: Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

2012-10-23 Thread Joel Maslak
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: IPv4 addresses ending in .0 and .255 can't be used either because the top and bottom addresses of a subnet are unusable. Why would hetzner be making such assumptions about what is and is not a valid address on a remote