EE (basically BT) broadband IPv6

I know BT / EE (new) offer IPv6

I've seen conflicting reports about whether this is a /56 or a /64 - the latter being problematic for prefix delegation. My conclusion so far is that users of the provided hub only get to see a /64, but in fact the network does offer a /56 which works fine with other routers like opnsense.

Can anyone confirm?

Secondly, I presume this prefix is dynamically allocated not static? (on consumer plans)

Secondly, I presume this prefix is dynamically allocated not static?

Why do you follow your statement with a question mark?
If you have a question that you expect others to take the time to answer, at least have the common courtesy to phrase your post appropriately.

For your third post in 4 years that comes across as rather aggressive and rude. It seems a perfectly good question to me.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-gra...

Edited by TinyMongomery (Sat 10-Aug-24 19:51:31)

OpenWRT is reporting /56 on my EE connection.

Showing as /64 on my Draytek router

In reply to a post by Speckled500:

Secondly, I presume this prefix is dynamically allocated not static?

Why do you follow your statement with a question mark?

probably because its a different thing.

thanks for confirming - that's really helpful

Interesting - is that just the address for the WAN interface on the router? That's often a /64 .. it's the allocated *prefix* that needs to be broader. I think it's that way from what I've seen in the other posts.

My Smart Hub also gives a /64 IPv6 global unicast prefix / length. The help says

The pool of addresses available for all the devices you connect to your BT Smart Hub.

The prefix will be the start of each address and the length tells you how many addresses are available.

No, it does show /64 on both

Edited by Colinh58 (Mon 12-Aug-24 18:45:25)