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Re: Another v6 question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Jan 27 14:33:03 2011

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:32:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <A5E4AFBB-92C6-464E-AAAB-07B69ECD5214@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Jared Mauch wrote:

> The ipv6 zealots talking about anything but a /64 for end-site are 
> talking about a "business class" service.  Even with my static IPs at 
> home, I have no need for more than a single /64 to be used in my wildest 
> dreams.  I could live with ~256 ips for the future.  I consider my tech 
> density "above-average".

I don't agree at all. I have 3 /64s in use in my home already. I could 
fairly easily go down to 2, but I definitely need at least 2.

I don't want to handle people like me differently, thus /56 for all 
residential customers makes a lot of sense. I see no downside.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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