Agree ... take a look at http://www.europe.ipv6tf.org/PublicDocuments/guidelines_for_isp_on_ipv6_assignment_to_customers_v1_2.pdf
Regards, Jordi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Chown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: IPv6 Best practice > Hi, > > With IPv6, one generally uses a /64 for all subnets, so that stateless > autoconfiguration (RFC2462) works. It's prudent to maintain that > regardless. Ideally your ISP should give you a /48, so you have ample > /64's to allocate. > > You can use shorter prefixes on point to point links, but a /64 is also > commonly used there. > > Tim > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:54:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ********************************** Madrid 2003 Global IPv6 Summit Presentations and videos on line at: http://www.ipv6-es.com This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
