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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:44:57AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > We have renumbered IPv6 space a couple of times when we were developing > our addressing plan. (We have a /32.) Renumbering was pretty trivial for > most systems, but servers requiring a fixed address were usually > configured with an explicit prefix. This should not have been the case, > but most people configured IPv6 addresses pretty much like IPv4 and > specified the entire 128 bits. Of course, after a renumbering, this gets > fixed, so those systems are usually OK the next time. "specified the entire 128 bits"... how do you specify only part of it? What determines the rest? "fixed" as in "now using stateless autoconfig"? Fun... change NIC and you need to change DNS. Thanks, but no thanks. Not for non-mobile devices which need to be reachable with sessions initiated from remote (basically: servers). Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [email protected] -- [email protected] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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