2 Jun
2016
2 Jun
'16
7:02 a.m.
On 06/02/2016 09:58 AM, James Knott wrote:
IPv6 is quite different in this regard, from IPv4, in that ISPs are supposed to provide at least a /64 prefix, which means the first 64 bits are the network address and the remaining 64, for addresses on the local network.
Forgot to mention, some people are advocating /48 prefixes be handed out to everyone. That's 80 bits for the local portion of the address. There are enough /48s to give well over 4000 of them to every person on earth and this is with about 3/4 of the IPv6 addresses not yet being allocated for any purpose. So, with IPv6, sharing a single address, through NAT, is a thing of the past.