[101164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Thu Dec 20 16:14:21 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:43:24 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4769E0F3.7030706@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:26:43 +0900
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> > I work on a network with 100K+ DSL folks and 200+ leased line
> > customers, plus some other stuff. The leased line customers are
> > increasing dramatically. I should plan for a /64 for every DSL
> > customer and a /48 for every leased line customer I expect over the
> > next 5-7 years?
>
> why not a /56 by default for both, and give them an opportunity to
> justify more?
>
Why not a /48 for all? IPv6 address space is probably cheap enough that
even just the time cost of dealing with the occasional justification
for moving from a /56 to a /48 might be more expensive than just giving
everybody a /48 from the outset. Then there's the op-ex cost of
dealing with two end-site prefix lengths - not a big cost, but a
constant additional cost none the less.
> a /64 is a bit old-think unless you are having cost issues getting your
> space from above.
>
Agree.
Regards,
Mark.
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