From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 9:22:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.es.net (mail1.es.net [198.128.3.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B72D37BE45 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:22:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fink@es.net) Received: from truckee.wins.lbl.gov (Truckee) [128.3.9.221] by mail1.es.net with esmtp (Exim 1.81 #2) id 12S1DV-0003ms-00; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:22:49 -0800 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000306091731.02b974d8@imap2.es.net> X-Sender: rlfink@imap2.es.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:22:45 -0800 To: "Eugene M. Kim" , Bill Fenner From: Bob Fink Subject: Re: IPv6: can a link-site (or global) address be configured in rc.conf? Cc: jose@we.lc.ehu.es, FreeBSD-current Mailing List , 6bone@ISI.EDU In-Reply-To: References: <200003061628.IAA19733@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eugene, At 09:00 AM 3/6/2000 -0800, Eugene M. Kim wrote: >(Cc'ed to the 6BONE mailing list in the hope that someone there could >answer my question as well) > >Speaking of the address allocation, is there a way for an individual to >get a non-local address space (so that all of my machines can get an >unique IPv6 address)? I've read through the 6BONE website, and it seems >to me that I somehow have to `qualify' in order to get one. (And the >fact that I just need <10 addresses makes me feel guilty; AFAIK the >minimum allocation unit is 2^64-address block :-p.) IPv6 "sites" own the right-most 80 bits of the 128 bits for local use (you know that, just restating for the wide list you have emailed to). The external routing prefixes are the left-most 48 bits of the 128 and come from your IPv6 service provider... normally. These are currently either in the 3FFE::/16 or 2001::/16 TLA space. The exception is for "6to4" prefixes which are in the 2002::/16 TLA space. See the I-D: Please read, then ask any questions you may have. 6to4 is currently supported, and there are relay routers up and running. Thanks, Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message