On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 9 jun 2011, at 10:32, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> You can actually use DHCPv6 to assign addresses to hosts dynamically >> on longer than /64 networks. > > The trouble is that DHCPv6 can't tell you the prefix length for your address, > so either set up the routers to advertise this prefix (but without the > autonomous autoconfiguration flag set) or prepare for surprising results. > > I say: life is too short to fiddle with this kind of stuff, just use /64, at > least for everything that isn't a point-to-point link or loopback address.
I don't disagree with you, but, the claim that you can only choose between SLAAC and Static and therefore only use /64 for dynamic addressing wasn't true. Owen
