[117854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Mon Oct 5 14:14:42 2009
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:13:59 -0400
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0500, Brian Johnson wrote:
> What would be "wrong" with using a /64 for a customer who only has a
> local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is.
IPv6 CPE's may be designed to get one subnet per physical media via
DHCPv6-PD, so for example wireless and wired may be different subnets.
Really, /56 is the way to go for residential assignments.