Re: Cannot get IPv6 router working
Steven Bellovin <smb <at> cs.columbia.edu>
2009-07-01 13:25:02 GMT
On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb <at> cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> 21:26:30.393860 IP6 (hlim 255, next-header: ICMPv6 (58), length:
>> 56) fe80::211:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx > ff02::1: [icmp6 sum ok] ICMP6,
>> router advertisement, length 56
>> hop limit 64, Flags [none], pref medium, router lifetime
>> 1800s, reachable time 0s, retrans time 0s
>> source link-address option (1), length 8 (1):
>> 00:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
>> 0x0000: 00yy yyyy yyyy
>> prefix info option (3), length 32 (4): 2001:zzz:z:zzz::/
>> 56, Flags [onlink, auto], valid time 2592000s, pref. time 604800s
>> 0x0000: 38c0 0027 8d00 0009 3a80 0000 0000 2001
>> 0x0010: zzzz zzzz zzzz 0000 0000 0000 0000
>>
>> Both speak v6 successfully with manually configured v6 addresses on
>> that
>> net.
>
> /56?? It's fine for you to get a /56 from your provider (static or
> BGP), but the convention is that prefixes for a link are /64. So
> that's
> probably running afoul of a sanity check later, at least for stateless
> autoconfiguration.
>
> If you have a /56, then that leaves you 8 bits for subnets. Assuming
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