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Your ISP gives you a IPv4 /32 which you don’t have a prayer of subnetting, you have to NAT. With a IPv6 /64 you can (1) NAT, or (2) better, subnet it and use D
by paulddraper 10mo ago
Your ISP gives you a IPv4 /32 which you don’t have a prayer of subnetting, you have to NAT.
With a IPv6 /64 you can (1) NAT, or (2) better, subnet it and use DHCPv6.
The only thing significant about /64 is that’s the smallest unit for SLAAC.
- aboardRat4 10mo agoAndroid only supports slaac.
- paulddraper 10mo agoStrangely it supports DHCPv6 as a server but not as a client.
- aboardRat4 10mo agoIt's not strange. It's Google's plan to push ISPs into supporting SLAAC and giving you at least /64 instead of giving you a single /128 address. It is not a bad thing actually.
- kllrnohj 10mo ago> The only thing significant about /64 is that’s the smallest unit for SLAAC. ...which means you can't subnet it because you have to assume SLAAC might happen since that's the only thing ipv6 requires. Ergo, an ISP only giving you a /64 means you have to nat if you want subnets, and if you have to nat why wouldn't you use ipv4 instead where it's so much simpler?