I have recently seem a presentation which detailed the IPv6 Private addressing as an address range that has been put in place simply to allow an easier understanding of IPv6. The address range itself has no real use, as really the last thing you want to start doing is trying to route private networks or have to implement Nat just because you have assigned a private address range.
The best solution a I see it, would be to use a public address range. I hope this helps (unfortunately I am still a little vague with regards to IPv6) Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mohacsi Janos Sent: maandag 4 augustus 2003 15:12 To: Mourad BERKANE Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Private Address Space for IPv6 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
