IPv6 support on Virgin media
Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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TonyJr wrote:
Excellent - the ball has started rolling. I still hope that we can request a prefix higher than the /64 minimum e.g. /56 or /48.
Do we really want to run out of IP's again? What you going to do with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses?
A Prefix length of /120 for 256 addresses (or less) of native IPv6 is enough.
i'd like 1024 addresses as thats what i ahve now on my internal network :)
It doesn't work like that with IPv6. The network is based on the first 64 bits and the host on the last 64 bits. Therefore if things are done correctly a /64 should be the minimum given. If they are using stateless autoconfiguration then the host section address (last 64 bits) is based on the MAC address.
Also note that there isn't NAT, so therefore a firewall is very important
- i know. no one will ever need more then /64. you can run a isp with /64 block
