Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2012 10:48 AM, James Knott wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > If you have a full class A (ie. /8 or 10.x.x.x) then you conceivably
> > have 10's of thousands (or more) MACs to potentially keep up with and
> > setup spanning trees for.
>
> Wait 'till you start working with IPv6 networks, where you can have up to 2^64 
> devices on a subnet!
>
> Of course, practical considerations may limit that somewhat.  ;-)
>
> I have a /56 IPv6 subnet, which can be split into 256 /64 subnets.

Actually, our main network is fully IPv6 enabled.  I didn't have
any problems with the IPv6 auto configuration, which is obtained
from the closest router if I'm not mistaken.

Regards,
Lew

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