[address-policy-wg] FWD: [GLOBAL-V6] draft-narten-iana-rir-ipv6-considerations-00.txt

Hi!

Why not? It CAN.

You said about /24 bounded into one ethernet network. But for example I am 
giving my users real IP over VPN connection. As it is point-to-point 
connection, there is no network and broadcast addresses at all, and x.x.x.0, 
x.x.x.255 works. Same is for dial-up.

But! Seldom I am experiencing some problems with that kind of addresses. There 
is a number misconfigured "antihackers" filters on the Net blocks .0 and .255 
as they thinks it is always broadcasts. A bit soul-save discussion with such 
admins usually fixes the problem ;)

> Thomas, all,
>
> > I'd welcome discussion/feedback on it, and this list seems as good a
> > place as any.
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-narten-iana-rir-ipv6-considerat
> >ions-00.txt
>
> This is nit-picking, but for the sake of clarity:
>
> 2.7.  Utilization
>
>    In IPv4, the utilization of a chunk of address space is defined as
>    the ratio of the actual number of host assignments to the theoretical
>    maximum number of host assignments. For example, a /24 in IPv4 can
>    number 256 hosts [...]
>
> A /24 can't number 256 hosts; it can number 254.
>
> Niall

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Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)