Global Unicast Addressing Plan Example
In this section an example Global Unicast addressing plan will be shown. The topology for the Acme Corporation that will be used in these examples is shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4: Acme Corp – Internet Connectivity
Like the previous example, the Acme Corp still has four major operations centers. The difference in this example is that the traffic is able to directly connect to the Internet and thus must use globally routable addresses. To avoid using anyone’s actual IPv6 Global assignment, the IPv6 documentation prefix will be used in this example: 2001:0DB8::/32. For the purposes of this example, this prefix will be used in place of an actual /32 prefix assigned by ICANN and an RIR to a local ISP. The ISP would then be responsible to use this prefix, form a plan for the bits between /32 and /48, and assign end user organizations /48 network ranges. For this example the ISP decided to assign the Acme Corp the 2001:0DB8:C21A::/48 network; Acme is then free to divide this space up over the next 16 bits. An example of this type of assignment is shown in Table 2.
Table 2: Acme Corp - IPv6 Global Unicast Address Assignment
|
Site |
IPv6 Unique Local Address Range Assignment |
|
Seattle |
2001:0DB8:C21A::/64 |
|
San Francisco |
2001:0DB8:C21A:1::/64 |
|
New York |
2001:0DB8:C21A:2::/64 |
|
Raleigh |
2001:0DB8:C21A:3::/64 |