Question about IPAM tools for v6

Cricket Liu cricket at infoblox.com
Wed Jan 29 23:19:55 CET 2014


Hi Mark.

On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Mark Boolootian <booloo at ucsc.edu> wrote:

>> Can anyone say whether existing IP Address Management tools that
>> support IPv6 have built-in assumptions or dependencies on the
>> /64 subnet prefix length, or whether they simply don't care about
>> subnet size?
> 
> We use Infoblox's IPAM.  There aren't any limitations of which I'm
> aware in terms of allocating space and IPv6 prefix length in the IPAM.
> However, I don't know if there are restrictions when it comes to
> DHCPv6, as we've only set up /64s.

Consensus around here is that we support DHCPv6 for non-/64 subnets (particularly in the context of Prefix Delegation), but the immediate next question is "Why would you need that?"

cricket


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