Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
NAT seems completely superfluous when the networks are dished out as /64. I did notice that there is a reserved range of private/local/site-unique addresses (prefix fd), but I'm not quite sure what that is intended for.
My understanding is those are addresses that can be used within an organization, either through a router or not, but not accessable by the world.
That's the weird thing - it doesn't say so. At least not in wikipedia. The 40-bit site-id is supposed to be random, so the unique local address isn't guaranteed to be unique, but does have a very high probability of being so. The thing is - todays RFC1918 IPv4 addresses are obviously not unique, but also not routable, but what's with these most-probably-unique IPv6 addresses that appear to be routable?
It's been a while since I read about it, but there are different tiers of addresses. The bottom address range is based strictly on the MAC address and is non-routeable. There are also other tiers that are limited to an organization or even to a part of the organization. These ranges are routeable, but not allowed on the internet, in the manner of RFC1918. Address ranges in IPv6 is a topic in and of itself. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org