[101204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Dec 22 18:07:52 2007
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:02:04 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <476D8B88.1000607@bogus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> Randy Bush wrote:
>> the "but what if they want the toaster on a separate subnet from the
>> blender" gives a new depth to 'reaching.' the one case i can think of
>> for firewalling/routing within the home is to keep the bathroom scale
>> from locking the fridge.
> If ipv6 subnetting is going to be hosed up at this point it's going to
> be done by people deploying it.
unfortunately, 'hosed up' only seems to be understood some years out.
smb's point is apt, we always end up too small.
but i still have a very hard time understanding what we are gonna do
with more than a /56 to a consumer connection.
and if i start to go to the left of a /56, where do i stop? there is no
obvious detent on the knob.
randy
