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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trent Lloyd)
Mon Dec 24 07:49:06 2007

Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>,
        Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>,
        nanog@merit.edu
From: Trent Lloyd <lathiat@bur.st>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <476F76E0.6080506@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:45:06 +0900
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Hi Jeroen,

On 24/12/2007, at 6:07 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Joe Greco wrote:
> [..]
>> Okay, here, let me make it reaaaaaaallllllyyyyy simple.
>
> Yes, indeed lets make it reaaaaaaallllllyyyyy simple for you:
>
>> If your ISP has been delegated a /48 (admittedly unlikely, but  
>> possible)
>> for $1,250/year, and they assign you a /56, their cost to provide  
>> that
>> space is ~$5.  They can have 256 such customers.
>
> <cut>

>
> How high are your transit&equipment bills again, and how are you  
> exactly
> charging your customers? ah, not by bandwidth usage, very logical!
>

Not my bandwidth usage? Ha. Ha. Haha. Ha.

Fortunately a /32 allocation was free from APNIC with our existing  
membership tier.

Regards,
Trent
Australia

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