[135712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's the current state of major access networks in North
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jan 28 01:29:47 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1101271550001.152@cust11794.lava.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:26:35 -0800
To: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
>=20
>> If they're routing a /64 to your gateway, you're all set. If they're =
not,
>> then, how are you getting the /64 in the first place?
>=20
> Bridged ethernet across the broadband provider network to the ISP =
router. Each customer gets a single /64 vlan to their residence. If the =
customer now wants more than one subnet, the ISP must now route =
additional prefixes to a customer's gateway. The customer can't just =
setup a router to break up the single /64 without the ISP carrying a =
route entry or the customer doing some kind of IPv6 NAT or proxy ND. If =
the ISP wont route additional prefixes, then the customer is forced to =
do the latter.
If you need more than one prefix, then, they should route you a /48
instead of a /64. If they won't, I strongly encourage you to switch
providers, or, get a free tunnel from http://tunnelbroker.net and
use that.
Owen
