[134945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 prefix lengths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Thu Jan 13 00:25:14 2011
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPTPk7TFw2=CucUrVe0VTAGETckXVZvhy13XDo@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:25:08 -0800
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 12, 2011 7:50 PM, "Richard Barnes" <richard.barnes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What IPv6 prefix lengths are people accepting in BGP from
> peers/customers? My employer just got a /48 allocation from ARIN, and
> we're trying to figure out how to support multiple end sites out of
> this (probably around 10). I was thinking about assigning a /56 per
> site, but looking at the BGP table stats on potaroo.net [1], it looks
> like this is not too common (only .29% of prefixes). Thoughts?
>
Is it possible you should be using PA space from your ISP? An ISP would have
no issue providing a /48 per site. Not too many details were given about
your requirements or circumstances ... PA may fit.
> Thanks,
> --Richard
>
>
> [1] <http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/index.html>
>
