On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:49:43PM -0400, Simon Comeau Martel wrote: > > You received a /64 for your router interface ? Or are you in a /64 > > subnet with other customers ? The setup sounds weird to me. To what > > address is your ISP forwarding that /56 ? > Yeah, it's a bit strange. But it's their IPv6 beta; very few customers are > in it right now. I guess they won't give so much address space in the long > run.
Well, supposedly, end-users should receive /48s from their ISPs [0]. > Right now, they give a /64 subnet to everyone in the beta, and, if you > tell them you will use a router (that's the case for everyone except those > who only have one PC connected directly to their ADSL modem), they also give > you a /56 subnet. Back to your initial problem, it is a bit of a bummer. The same happens with Linux as well. As has been stated before, it is accepted that router discovery is for end-hosts only. I still don't quite understand how it is be dangerous (apart from some really twisted cases). Anyway, maybe you should ask your ISP to implement DHCPv6. DHCP used to be a client configuration tool, but DHCPv6 is more specifically designed for router configuration. My ISP does that over a PPP link, and it works wonderfully. > They are all publicly routable IPv6 addresses. And it will stay like that! That's one of the reasons to use IPv6: no *(&#$(# NAT. [0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/3769 -- Olivier Mehani <sht...@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 4435 CF6A 7C8D DD9B E2DE F5F9 F012 A6E2 98C6 6655 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
