RE: Use of extended prefix lengths

["Dunn, Jeffrey H." <jdunn@mitre.org>]

Ralph,

Many thanks for the information.  Does this include prefix delegation? 

Best Regards,
 
Jeffrey Dunn
Info Systems Eng., Lead
MITRE Corporation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Droms [mailto:rdroms@cisco.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 7:04 AM
To: Dunn, Jeffrey H.
Cc: Ralph Droms; Mohacsi Janos; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Use of extended prefix lengths

The DHCP server in Cisco's CNR supports prefixes of any length (up to /

128).

- Ralph

On Jun 5, 2008, at Jun 5, 2008,1:35 PM, Dunn, Jeffrey H. wrote:

> Janos,
>
> Which server did he use?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jeffrey Dunn
> Info Systems Eng., Lead
> MITRE Corporation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohacsi Janos [mailto:mohacsi@niif.hu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:26 PM
> To: Dunn, Jeffrey H.
> Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Use of extended prefix lengths
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> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dunn, Jeffrey H. wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I was discussing the possibility of using IPv6 prefix lengths
greater
>> than 64 bits with some colleagues and wondered if anyone had any
>> experience with doing so.  Specifically, has anyone tried it?
>> Thoughts?
>
> One of my colleague tried /126 with DHCPv6 address assignment and it
> seems
> to be mediocre success:
> Linux (Dibbler) client was working almost alright - with some  
> extension
> Windows Vista failed  - not really supporting longer prefix.
>
>
> for point-to-point links prefix longer than /64 was worked without
any
> problem on Cisco boxes.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Janos Mohacsi
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>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Jeffrey Dunn
>> Info Systems Eng., Lead
>>
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