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[ipv6-wg] additional IPv6 allocation (ripe-512 issues)

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Ivan Pepelnjak ipepelnjak at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 18:45:07 CEST 2011

No, you don't. The only protocol that needs /64 is SLAAC.

/64 on the connection is a __BEST PRACTICE__ (allowing CPE router to use SLAAC), no more, no less.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
> rodolfo.garciapenas at telefonica.es
> 
> > On 7/19/11 3:22 PM, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote:
> > > Don't pull ND into this discussion. How do you make subnets smaller
> > > than /64 work on Ethernet links between Cisco routers?
> > >
> > > SLAAC does depend on /64.
> >
> > Discussion was end user assignments, not r2r connection segments.
> 
> IMHO, the remote router could be the customer xDSL router. And you need a
> */64* for the link.

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