[111360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Feb 4 20:34:41 2009
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:33:12 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <498A40C1.8060702@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
>
> Anthony Roberts wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't think there's any need for the ISP's routers to advertise all the
>> prefixes they delegate. They'll advertise the /48 or whatever it is, and
>> then delegate chunks out of that.
>>
> My apologies for not being clear:
>
> As I posted just before in reply to MarkA - I'm hoping that for the
> MAJORITY of customers that I can use PD and dynamic /64s (or whatever)
> local to a BRAS.
> My FEAR is that people ("customers") are going to start assuming that v6
> means their own static allocation (quite a number are assuming this).
> This means that I have a problem with routing table size etc if I have
> to implement that.
>
Well, it is static, but like most static IP services offerd by an ISP,
if you leave you can't take your addresses with you. Even with DSL from
AT&T if you move locations you get a different subnet.
~Seth
