[134971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 prefix lengths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Jan 13 13:31:03 2011
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:17:41 +0100
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPTPk7TFw2=CucUrVe0VTAGETckXVZvhy13XDo@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
if you have multiple sites you should request a direct assignmnet later
than /48. previous $employer recieved a /44 direct assignment on the
basis of north american footprint.
On 1/13/11 4:49 AM, Richard Barnes 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?
>
> Thanks,
> --Richard
>
>
> [1] <http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/index.html>
>
