[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

Grzegorz Janoszka Grzegorz at Janoszka.pl
Thu Aug 27 06:51:42 EDT 2009


Phil Mayers wrote:
>> Do you have any plans for such IP division? I just thought about 
>> replacing first 16 bits of public v6 address with fe80, but maybe you 
>> have better ideas.
> 
> I don't understand; all link-local IPs are
> 
> fe80::/64
> 
> i.e. link-local are always fe80:0000:0000:0000:<the mac>
> 
> You can't change this I think.

Link-local IP's are fe80::/10, so I planned to use fe80::/16 in my 
network just by replacing first 16 bits of our public IP's.

Can anyone say whether this is bad or wrong idea? :)

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Grzegorz Janoszka


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