[GTALUG] Surprise, IPv6!

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Wed Nov 11 16:14:56 UTC 2015


On 11/11/2015 04:04 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I just enabled IPv6 on my DIR-825 (stock firmware) with Teksavvy
> yesterday, and it works great.
>
> Having a /56 does seem like extreme overkill, but it works.

You can split that /56 into 256 /64s, for multiple networks or VLANs. 
Instead of the variable length subnets in IPv4, an IPv6 network is
supposed to have a /64 prefix (IPv6 term for subnet).



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