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James
Asked: 2018-09-23 09:41:12 +0800 CST

IPv6 /56 subnetting to Virtual Machines

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My network provider has allocated me a IPv6 /56. My goal is to give a /64 to each virtual machine I have. They told me they would route the /56 to my CentOS Xen server and I would have to handle the routing to the VMs.

Do I assign 2001:db8:1111:15::2 to the host server's network config with ::1 being the gateway?

Message from provider:

We have routed the IPv6 addresses to you vlan.
2001:db8:1111:15::1/122
Then we routed
2001:db8:2222:2000::/56 to 2001:db8:1111:15::2

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1 Answers

  1. Yes, my reading of the provider's response is also that you configure your physical interface with 2001:db8:1111:15::2/122 using 2001:db8:1111:15::1 as the gateway.

    Using a /122 for the link prefix is a bit unusual. The recommended practice is to use a /64. But you shouldn't configure a shorter prefix than the provider told you to, so I recommend you stick with /122 like they said.

    The good news is that since you got a routed prefix it isn't a big deal for you how the provider chose to configure that link prefix. An earlier question has more details on link prefixes and routed prefixes.

    The routed prefix 2001:db8:2222:2000::/56 can be subdivided into 256 link prefixes allowing for up to 256 VMs. Though you might want to set aside some /60s in case you find a need for a routed prefix on one of the VMs.

    For example you could use 2001:db8:2222:2000::/64 through 2001:db8:2222:207f::/64 as link prefixes to allow for 128 VMs. And use 2001:db8:2222:2080::/60 through 2001:db8:2222:20f0::/60 as routed prefixes allowing for up to 16 of your VMs to get a routed /60 for themselves.

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