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bigiain01/21/20251 replyview on HN

> I think i don't care if they can see my ipv6 because each machine gets a /64 to itself, that's the logic, right?

I suspect you're looking at that wrong.

It's each internet connection that gets a /64, not each machine. Your ISP hands you a /64 and you can do whatever you like with it on your home(/corporate) network.

So you can choose from 18 thousand trillion IPV6 addresses for any machine behind your ISP/internet connection, but the top half of your IPV6 address uniquely identifies that ISP and they can connect that to your account/payment details, with 4 billion times as much precision as an IPV4 address.


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genewitch01/25/2025

> It's each internet connection that gets a /64,

i get a /48, which i can delegate the prefix to 255 subnets of size /64, so each machine on my LAN gets a /64 this is Prefix Delegation, part of DHCP v6 aka DHCP-PD

edit: this is still "new" in that half the consumer routers only partially support it. but afaik it was in the spec for ipv6 that each node should be a /64, so realistically my LAN having each node with /64 is per spec, and machines that are NAT behind a single /64 at the gateway are out of spec and part of the reason that no one uses ipv6, IMO...

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