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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue May 5 15:21:45 2009

Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:21:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A008F5B.5030009@brightok.net>
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On Tue, 5 May 2009, Jack Bates wrote:

> What is missing, unless I've missed a protocol (which is always possible), is 
> an automated way for a CPE to assign it's networks, pass other networks out 
> to downstream routers in an on-need basis. I say on-need, as there may be 3 
> routers directly behind the CPE and each of those may get additional routers 
> and so on and so forth. A presumption could be made that route efficiency is

Why wouldn't DHCPv6-PD work within the home as well as between the ISP and 
the home?

I see little reason why the main home gateway can't get a /56 from the 
ISP, and then hand out /62 (or whatever) to any routers within the home 
that asks for PD?

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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