[117870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Oct 5 17:51:50 2009
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:49:39 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
In-Reply-To: <29A54911243620478FF59F00EBB12F4701A60AD3@ex01.drtel.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Brian Johnson wrote:
> So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses?
No, that's a single subnet, typically they should be assigned more than
that.
> I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device!
>
> Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
>
> - Brian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us]
>> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:38 AM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
>>
>> Brian Johnson wrote:
>>> >From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is
>> for
>>> assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it
>> is
>>> currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong?
>>>
>> The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one
>> subnet, /56 if they need more than one.
>>
>> ~Seth
>
