[128013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Thu Jul 22 20:46:19 2010
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:45:43 +1000
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On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 20:24 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:33:45 BST, Matthew Walster said:
> > I never saw the point of assigning a /48 to a DSL customer. Surely the
> > better idea would be to assign your bog standard residential DSL
> > customer a /64 and assign them a /56 or /48 if they request it, routed
> > to an IP of their choosing.
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> If they're using autoconfigure for IPv6 addresses, what happens if they w=
ant to
> share that connection? Giving them a /64 off the bat means that a very s=
izable
> fraction of your users are going to call.
Um, but they will have 18 billion billion addresses in that /64. That
should do them, unless they want to subnet in the home. Which is not so
unusual, so while doing a /48 might be overkill, doing a /60 or even
a /56 off the bat is not such a silly idea.
Unless I've misunderstood Matthew, and he was suggesting that the /64 be
the link network. That would indeed effectively give the customer a
single address, unless it was being bridged rather than routed at the
CPE. Not sure bridging it is such a good idea - most people will
probably want their home networks to keep working even if the ISP has an
outage.
Regards, K.
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