Friday, April 10
Ooookay, That Will Probably Suffice
SoftLayer now support IPv6, and you can get a free block of IPv6 addresses with new servers.
You get one master IPv4 address, four free secondary IPv4 addresses, and 64 free IPv6 addresses.
At least, that's how I read it. I was wondering why they were being so stingy with IPv6; they're not exactly in short supply.
Well.
Actually.
It's not 64 IPv6 addresses, it's a /64 block. In other words, 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. Over 18 quintillion.
They also offer additional IPv6 blocks at extra cost. I don't think I'll need that service in a hurry.
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SoftLayer now support IPv6, and you can get a free block of IPv6 addresses with new servers.
You get one master IPv4 address, four free secondary IPv4 addresses, and 64 free IPv6 addresses.
At least, that's how I read it. I was wondering why they were being so stingy with IPv6; they're not exactly in short supply.
Well.
Actually.
It's not 64 IPv6 addresses, it's a /64 block. In other words, 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. Over 18 quintillion.
They also offer additional IPv6 blocks at extra cost. I don't think I'll need that service in a hurry.
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The problem with IPv6 is that some idiot decided to waste half of the address BITS (which means wasting most of the space -- wasting all but one-2 billionth part of it), ostensibly to help autoconfiguration. You cannot have a prefix longer than 64! So now ISPs give /48 to customers... Which is not very far from /32 that IPv4 provides, considering the allocation policies. If you have a /64, you can only have onle LAN. It's not subnettable. Try it and you'll see.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Monday, April 13 2009 04:17 AM (/ppBw)
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Fortunately I don't need to subnet it. But yeah, that's kind of dumb.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 13 2009 09:51 AM (PiXy!)
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