We may be tempted to return to those familiar techniques with the adoption of IPv6. I must first clarify one thing. For IPv4 we were allocated a prefix and then performed subnetting to divide up ...

Variable Length Subnet Masking (VLSM ... Take into account the number of potential addresses within your IPv6 prefix, and that list could become unmanageably huge. So as much as possible, try ...

of the site-local address (subnet and interface) are just pasted onto the higher fields (48 bits) of the provider-based forms of the IPv6 address. What about private masks and routing in IPv6? As ...