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paulddraperlast Saturday at 8:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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kllrnohjlast Saturday at 7:19 PM

> 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?

aboardRat4last Saturday at 3:59 PM

Android only supports slaac.

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