Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 24 Nov 1996 11:40:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: IPv6 and the "average user" |
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ecki@inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels) wrote on 23.11.96 in <577j5k$2bc@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de> wrote: > > To keep them alive as long as possible, routes need to have long prefixes > > - or, to put that differently, providers have to share one or very few > > prefixes among all their customers. > > > And *that* makes for too few IP addresses for every customer. > > Does that mean with IPv6 Address Blocks will be assigned to ISP and the > Customer has to switch Networks if they change Providers?
Yes. No way to avoid that has been found; instead, the IPv6 people have concentrated on making it as painless as possible.
> > However, you'll still need to change your addresses when you switch ISPs, > > unless you are big enough so the backbone routers will be willing to make > > routing table entries just for you. Because of this, renumbering a network > > is a lot easier in IPv6 - each box *must* support being told their address > > by the router. At the router, just configure the new 80 bit prefix. The > > rest is automatic. (Well, if you do DNS, you'll have to change that, too.) > > Ah yes.. thats nice... Thanks for that info.. is there a RFC especially for > that policy?
For which policy?
MfG Kai
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