[101406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Jan 3 06:38:05 2008
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:34:33 +0100 (CET)
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B001AB758D@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> No, it gives them 16 bits for subnetting. Everybody gets
> 64 bits for addressing because everybody (except oddballs
> and enevelope pushers) uses a /64 subnet size. Since 64
> bits are more than anyone could ever possibly need for
> addressing and 16 bits is more than an end site could ever
> possibly need for subnetting, the /48 is an ideal allocation
> size.
As should be clear from the previous discussion, there are plenty of
us who disagree here, and lean towards /56 for end users (typically
residential customers) while business users would get a /48 or more
based on need.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
