AVonGaussPremium
join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL | reply to mackey
Re: [IPv6] Comcast IPv6 Address Assignment/Delegation While I'm glad Comcast is going to give out a /60, and I'm not trying to pick on you personally, but you're saying 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 IPv6 addresses just won't be enough for say 256 real / virtual devices in the home? |
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 whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC
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1 edit | said by AVonGauss:While I'm glad Comcast is going to give out a /60, and I'm not trying to pick on you personally, but you're saying 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 IPv6 addresses just won't be enough for say 256 real / virtual devices in the home?
Each VLAN or routed segment should be a /64 for the foreseeable future (netstacks stink, even without SLAAC in use). Which is why some segment (edit: network-pun unintended) of Comcast's residential users will need a /60. |
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AVonGaussPremium
join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL | Oh I'm sure we can come up with all sorts of nifty ways to use routable IPv6 segments, but from the home user perspective, I think most other than a truly isolated guest network are probably more a product of tinkering rather than a definable need. I think Comcast's approach of providing additional routable segments only to those that request and know how to with DHCP-PD to be a very good compromise. Its far more than I personally was expecting from any decently sized residential provider to offer. |
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| said by AVonGauss:Its far more than I personally was expecting from any decently sized residential provider to offer. On Uverse, AT&T offers a /60 for each IPv4 address you have.
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AVonGaussPremium
join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL | said by mackey:On Uverse, AT&T offers a /60 for each IPv4 address you have.
/M
I wasn't aware that U-verse was offering native IPv6 at this point, though admittedly I don't follow it as closely as I once did. If they are now offering it to residential U-verse subscribers that is good news indeed. We might just get this IPv6 migration thing done in under two decades after all.  |
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brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | said by AVonGauss:I wasn't aware that U-verse was offering native IPv6 at this point, though admittedly I don't follow it as closely as I once did. If they are now offering it to residential U-verse subscribers that is good news indeed. We might just get this IPv6 migration thing done in under two decades after all.
It isn't native yet. They're using 6RD. |
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