{"id":322,"date":"2010-05-16T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-05-16T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:18:16","slug":"update-to-our-ipv6-allocation-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/2010\/05\/16\/update-to-our-ipv6-allocation-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to our IPv6 Allocation Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After gaining some experience in configuring IPv6 networks, and also receiving feedback from others, I&#8217;ve revised our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/network\/addresses\/ipv6\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\">IPv6 Allocation Scheme<\/a>. This is the document which lays out how we intend to allocate networks to departments and colleges, and other services within the University.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference is a change from using \/112 networks for router-to-router linknets to \/64. Yes, this is horribly wasteful, or at least it feels like it coming from an IPv4 world, but we learned a few things about compatibility with actual implementations of IPv6 which made the \/64 seem simpler, for now. There is nothing preventing us moving back to \/112 or another size later on.<\/p>\n<p>Also the way in which site-wide service networks such as OWL and Eduroam are allocated has changed, as we have moved their location within our IPv6 space up to the top \/46. Other than that, there is not a lot which would affect departments and colleges &#8211; the changes are mostly to aid the roll-out by the OUCS Networks team.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next weeks I will be lighting up more IPv6 in the backbone network, and working on our Linux firewall\/gateway server (which exists until we have a proper hardware appliance in place). We&#8217;re not yet ready to offer a customer service to departments and colleges, and work on the DNS\/DHCP system has our attention through to the summer, but after that I hope we can start to have some services hosted on IPv6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After gaining some experience in configuring IPv6 networks, and also receiving feedback from others, I&#8217;ve revised our IPv6 Allocation Scheme. This is the document which lays out how we intend to allocate networks to departments and colleges, and other services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/2010\/05\/16\/update-to-our-ipv6-allocation-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,278,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backbone-network","category-documentation","category-ipv6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}