Sandbag@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs moving to IPv6 worth it?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up15arrow-down1message-squareIs moving to IPv6 worth it?Sandbag@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerehabdoll@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down22·1 year agoA good isp would give you something bigger than a /64 - /56 or /48. something that you can subnet.
minus-squaresep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoold post, but I so wonder why you got downwoted for saying it like it is. a good isp will give you a /56, the minimum best practice. a great isp will give you a /48 you’r router will also participate in the wan /64, but that is just the uplink, and not something that will be used on the lan. https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690/#4--size-of-end-user-prefix-assignment---48---56-or-something-else-
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agowouldn’t /64 still leave you with 64 bits for you to do whatever? Ipv6 has a 128 bit address. If you can do subnets with a small usable portion of 32 bits, then you certainly can with a full 64 bits
A good isp would give you something bigger than a /64 - /56 or /48. something that you can subnet.
old post, but I so wonder why you got downwoted for saying it like it is. a good isp will give you a /56, the minimum best practice. a great isp will give you a /48 you’r router will also participate in the wan /64, but that is just the uplink, and not something that will be used on the lan. https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690/#4--size-of-end-user-prefix-assignment---48---56-or-something-else-
wouldn’t /64 still leave you with 64 bits for you to do whatever? Ipv6 has a 128 bit address. If you can do subnets with a small usable portion of 32 bits, then you certainly can with a full 64 bits