On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Mourad BERKANE wrote:
>
> What is the private address space for IPv6?
>
> Today private IPv4 address space is defined in rfc1918, is their any
> update/equivalent for v6?
>
> 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
> 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
> 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
There is a builtin private address for IPv6. But it has different usage
than IPv4 private address:
- Each IPv6 configured interface has its own private address.
- This address is local for a particular link therefore it is
called link-local address.
- This link local address is used for local communication only
The address space is: fe80::/10
You should not expect address translation for ll (i.e link local)
addresses. If you need global communication you should use global IPv6
address. There are plenty of them and you should not expect to run out of
them.
There was some idea to provide site-local addresses, but it is being
deprecated by IETF, since not used/no defined properly the semantics.
I hope this helped.
Regards,
Janos Mohacsi
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