Nov 24 18:41 2014, Joe Delahaye wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:
JD> They gave me a /64 address, as well as a /56 address, not to mention JD> a recusive JD> DNS address, etc. I'm even more confused <G> The router gives me JD> the /56 JD> address under LAN, and the /64 also under LAN but as a Link Local JD> Address/ I JD> also have a WAN address shown. I assume that might be what you guys JD> need?
Usually the /64 is the transfer network for the PPP session, i.e. the WAN connection of your router. The /56 is the prefix for your LAN. For each LAN segmant you'd assign a /64. For the standard home network with one single LAN segment you'd use just a /64 out of the /56. In case you got more LAN segments you can use prefix delegation to distribute the /56. AFAIK, PD isn't supported by any SOHO router yet, but OpenWRT (OpenWRT's odhcpd has some minor issues with PD and I've opened a ticket for that).
Link Local addresses are only used inside a LAN segmant and aren't routed. The inface part of the address is based on the MAC address. If you got Privacy Extensions enabled you get even more addresses ;) Yes, the WAN address of your fidonet system is the one needed for the nodelist. The idea of IPv6 is to give each device in your network a public IP address. Forget about NAT! And no worries about security, just use a stateful firewall, e.g. the one built into your router.
