13 Oct
2009
13 Oct
'09
9:51 a.m.
On 13/10/09 15:33, Justin Shore wrote:
He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll write back when we get into that discussion.
Anything other than /64 removes the possibility of using privacy (aka temporary) addresses, enabled on Vista and above by default (net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr on Linux). For a single prefix a host may have by default up to 8 global unicast addresses - 1 EUI-64 and 7 privacy.