Hello all, I have been "playing" with ipv6 for a while now (mostly on Linux and osX) and I have started to turn my thoughts to networking and servers. The easy one I guess is servers. Presumably a static ipaddress is best to use because of DNS etc. If a static address is allocated, radvd will not be required because there is no ipv4 DHCP type requirement. Is this a correct assumption?
Second, networks. On an ipv4 based ip network, it is usual on wan links (unless they are unnumbered serial lines) to use a .252 or /30 mask with 4 addresses in the subnet (net, ip1, ip2, broadcast). Is this wise to implement in ipv6? eg use a /126 mask to allow four valid ipv6 addresses. In that case, if I get a /48, I would need to use the first allowed block (/49 mask?) carved up into much smaller chunks, ultimately down to the /126's for wan lines. Given a working ipv4 network where each remote site has a /24 ipv4 allocation (and is more than enough given the number of pc's there), would it be sensible to use a /120 for each site or perhaps be profligate(!) and use /118 to allow for all the ipv6 toasters we are likely to be able to buy next year? Any thoughts on this would be welcome, there seems to be quite a lot of tech info about, but less on the planning rather than implementation side. Regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world:- Those who understand binary & those who don't. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
