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Unique IPv6 Prefix Per Host – How Complex Do You Want IPv6 to Be?

Unique IPv6 Prefix Per Host – How Complex Do You Want IPv6 to Be?

January 2, 2018

Via: ipSpace

In December 2017 IETF published RFC 8273 created by the v6ops working group (which means there must have been significant consensus within the working group that we need the solution and that it makes at least marginal sense).

The RFC specifies a mechanism by which the first-hop router allocates a unique /64 IPv6 prefix for every host attached to a subnet and uses unicast and multicast RA responses sent to unicast MAC addresses to give every host the impression that it’s the sole host on its own subnet.

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