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How is a home/private network's ipv6 network number assigned to Cable Modems?
For typical IPv4 home network deployments, the private network is made up of private IP addresses (usually 192.168.0.0/24). All devices share the router's public (Internet-routable) IP address assign...
Some of that was useful. I need to watch the videos, but I think I found what I was ultimately looking for is referred to (and mentioned above) is "prefix delegation." It appears the DHCPv6 protocol and services is what performs Prefix Delegation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_delegation
This was enlightening to me since I wasn't aware that DHCP was what did this.
Thanks for the help...
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