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11:58:20 on Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Mortimer remarked:
>How does subnetting work in IP6? With a NAT router, all the PCs on the
>private side are allocated different addresses inthe same subnet and so
>they can ping and communicate with each other. If IP6 doesn't use NAT,
>what guarantee will there be that several PCs on the same LAN connected
>to the internet via a (non-NAT) router will be able to communicate? Or
>is the subnet set to 0.0.0.0 (or the IP6 equivalent) so that all IP
>addresses are able to communicate?
ipv6 is exactly the same as ipv4, just "more addresses". It'll work just
the same as it does today when a home-hub has more than one public IP
address (I had four, I think, when I first got ADSL).
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Roland Perry |