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|    Victor Sudakov to Scott Street    |
|    A small questionary on ISPs    |
|    24 Oct 21 13:26:34    |
      REPLY: 1:266/420 61746324       MSGID: 2:5005/49 6174fdcc       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0700       TID: hpt/fbsd 1.9.0-cur 2019-12-05       Dear Scott,              23 Oct 21 15:24, you wrote to me:               SS>>> inet6 2601:48:c500:9340::c0e3 prefixlen 60 dynamic               VS>> This is very interesting. Why "prefixlen 60" on the LAN?               SS> Perhaps - an educated guess here - Comcast's provided gateway has,        SS> potentially, 4 internal LAN interfaces. It could be configured with a        SS> 5GHz WiFi subnet, a 2.4GHz one, the GbE ports, and a 'Xfinity Home'        SS> port. I haven't investigated what the "Home" port is used for, but        SS> that may explain the breaking down of the /64 to /60. Again, just a        SS> theory.              Whatever Comcast's intentions, are you sure that a LAN with a prefixlen       different from /64 will work properly? Will a non-standard prefix not break       SLAAC and other things?              This is where my theoretical knowledge is lacking, but I've always been warned       against using anything different from /64 on a LAN segment.              Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN       --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20170303-b20170303        * Origin: Ulthar (2:5005/49)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 30/0 50/109 80/1 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 154/10       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 226/30 227/702 229/424 426 428 550 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 400 261/38 280/464 5555 282/464 1038       SEEN-BY: 301/0 1 101 113 812 317/3 322/757 342/200 460/58 463/68 467/239       SEEN-BY: 467/888 633/280 712/848 920/1 5000/111 5001/100 5005/49 53       SEEN-BY: 5015/46 5020/715 830 846 1042 2047 2140 4441 5058/104 5064/56       SEEN-BY: 5080/102 5083/1 444       PATH: 5005/49 5020/1042 301/1 229/426           |
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