On 5/23/2014 5:30 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 5/23/2014 3:59 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
>> A couple of things:
>>
>> a) That script was written 6 years ago before the distributions has much
>> support for IPv6. I certainly wouldn't use it today and will remove
>> mention to it as soon as I have a moment. You really should be using
>> your distribution's configuration tools to configure the tunnel.
>>
>> b) You need to give some thought to how you are going to use the /32.
>> Your current configuration is totally unusable (the same /32 is defined
>> on eth0 and eth1). Unless the two interfaces connect to the same
>> network, you must subnet such that the networks on eth0 and eth1 are
>> disjoint.
> 
> And I very much doubt that you have a /32. You should confirm what they
> are delegating to you. It is probably on the order of a /60 or less. A
> /32 is 4 billion /64s. There are only 4 billion IPv4 addresses..

And each /64 has (4 billion) **2 IPv6 addresses. They are made that
large for autoconfiguration. When using autoconfiguration (radvd), the
low order 64-bits of the IPv6 address are autoconfigured using EUI-64
addressing.

-Tom
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