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Understanding IPv6 Prefix Delegation
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Lets say we are an customer to an ISP.
We need a block of addresses to allocate within our internal
network.
We do not need a single address.
This is where prefix delegation comes in


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Say an ISP has this IPv6 address 2001:1111/32
He wants to delegate 48 blocks out this /32
He wants to delegate 2001:1111:0000/48 to 2001:1111:FFFF/48
So he can delegate prefixes 2001:1111:0000 to 2001:1111:FFFF
The number of prefixes he can delegate is 65536


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The customer1 gets 2001:1111:0000/48 from ISP
Suppose he wants to use /64 in his network
That is 2001:1111:0000/48 delegated by the ISP
Now he will use the next hextet for subnets
2001:1111:0000:0000 to 2001:1111:0000:FFFF is the number of
subnets he can use in his network i.e 65536 subnets
The hosts will get address by SLAAC
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Configure the link between ISP and its customers
Create a local pool on ISP
Create a DHCP pool on ISP which will use the pool for prefix
delegation
Create a dhcp client on customer router to use Prefix delegation
Delegate the prefix to the internal interfaces of the customer
routers
The end devices should get addresses using IPv6 autoconfig

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