[Fwd: FW: (Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog) : Use of extended length prefixes]

[Nick Hilliard]

Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Interesting tidbit regarding MS Server 2008 DHCPv6 implementation not 
> being capable of supporting prefixes other than /64 that I received on 
> another list:

After all, who could ever want more than 640 deci-bits of address space?

Nick

> --- Original Message ---
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> Many thanks to Ralph Droms for verifying that Cisco does support
> extended prefixes.  As you can see from the forwarded e-mail below,
> Microsoft does not ;-(
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Jeffrey Dunn
> Info Systems Eng., Lead
> MITRE Corporation.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manu Jeewani [mailto:manuj at microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:13 AM
> To: Dunn, Jeffrey H.; DHCP Bloggers
> Subject: RE: (Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog) : Use of extended
> length prefixes
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Windows server 2008 DHCP server does not support prefix other then 64
> bit.
> 
> Thanks,
> Manu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdunn at mitre.org [mailto:jdunn at mitre.org]
> Sent: 05 June 2008 23:15
> To: DHCP Bloggers
> Subject: (Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog) : Use of extended length
> prefixes
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I am interested in associating extended length (longer than 64 bit)
> prefixes with links or link addrresses.  Will the WIN SVR 2008 DHCPv6
> server support prefixes longer than 64 bits?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeff
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