[118202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Oct 13 21:39:45 2009
To: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:19:19 EDT."
<op.u1rnahbbtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:38:40 +1100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <op.u1rnahbbtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>, "Ricky Beam" writes:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:33:03 -0400, Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
> wrote:
> > He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's
> > coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to
> > whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll
> > write back when we get into that discussion.
>
> It's the IPv6 equiv of an IPv4 /30 link network. Then a /64 or whatever
> can be aimed to that link address. This is exactly what Bellsouth does
> for business DSL: the link has a dynamic address and your netblock is then
> routed to it. (this is confusing and unworkable for a lot of cheap
> hardware.)
Just use a /64 for the customer link. That allows them to have a CGA if
they need one.
Mark
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