[101480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Mon Jan 7 16:49:58 2008
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:17:11 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4782995D.40506@socket.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:27:57 -0600
John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net> wrote:
>
> It should probably be pointed out:
>
> Asking for practical advice on choosing /48 vs. /56 on a residential
> broadband CPE is largely unanswerable.
>
> Why?
>
> Because I don't know of any residential broadband CPEs that support IPv6.
>
> I want to be wrong about that. Seriously. Send me a link to one. I want
> to be wrong. (And by residential, I mean a CPE/router/firewall that costs
> less than $150US.)
>
From recent presentations I've seen, there's plenty of it in Japan and Korea.
> IMO, the only answers so far:
>
> businesses get /48
> dialup gets /64
>
> (by default anyway; there are always exceptions)
>
> John
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