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Re: IPv6 fragmentation and IPv6 header parsing

To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IPv6 fragmentation and IPv6 header parsing
From: Mark Baker <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:50:51 +0100
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108022038280.4508-100000@xxxxxxxxxx>; from pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:41:57PM +0300
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:41:57PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:

> As there are no huge technical or address allocational reasons why ISP's
> could not give at least /64, those ISP's that do get more popular and ones
> dealing /128's do not, and disappear from IPv6 market.

There are, however, technical reasons why ISPs might want to use dynamic IPs
(if they have lots of dial-up hardware in different locations, routing
issues make static IP difficult), so although their customers would get a
/64, it might be a different one every time they dial up.

In that situation, since I wouldn't want addresses on my local network to
keep changing, I would want to use NAT to translate the address block
assigned by the ISP onto some site local address space.

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