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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
[lots of comments about the size of a /64]... Am I the only one who imagines most ISPs will just assign the default IP to each /64 (or whatever they issue) (e.g. all zeros or mostly zeros or just the MAC addy of the end CPE).. This would a) dramatically reduce the "breadth" of IPv6 space from a scanning perspective and b) even guessing MAC addys is not that hard given manufacturer codes. IPv6 seems very, very classful to me, and I think the lessons we learned in the pre-CIDR days about amplification and address-guessing and topology determination by remote are still pretty relevant. Obviously the firewall bit changes those expectations -- assuming they are used. But if we assume that 2^96 is enough space to hide in... well, I'm pretty sure we'll see every kind of mess we've had to deal with in the past revisit their gifts upon us. Deepak
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