You could interpret it that way, sure. There are so many IPv6 addresses you really don’t have to subnet anything like you did in IPv4. The typically “mask” you will see is a /64.
Well, sort of.
You can divide up IPv6 addresses as you like.
But … there’s so much space there that they are typically just divided in half.
64 bits of subnet (aka routing prefix) + 64 bits of host address.
They play a lot of games with the first 12 or so bits to say what kind of network it is, and the rules change a lot for multicast and other address types.
So its not a subnet as you know it, but it still is.
What? There’s no way that’s right, right?
You could interpret it that way, sure. There are so many IPv6 addresses you really don’t have to subnet anything like you did in IPv4. The typically “mask” you will see is a /64.
Well, sort of.
You can divide up IPv6 addresses as you like.
But … there’s so much space there that they are typically just divided in half.
64 bits of subnet (aka routing prefix) + 64 bits of host address.
They play a lot of games with the first 12 or so bits to say what kind of network it is, and the rules change a lot for multicast and other address types.
So its not a subnet as you know it, but it still is.