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Re: Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Oct 11 17:39:29 2012
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:34:39 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FEF985E-0131-49BE-8407-76D04217A8BF@netconsonance.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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one of the downsides to v6 is the huge amnt of space the folks expect you to announce.
lots of space to do nefarious things. that said. if you select your peers carefully and don't mind
a bit of hand crafting, you can /96 and even /112
that said, get a /32 and assign/announce /48s...
/bill
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:02:17PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> I've finally convinced $DAYJOB to deploy IPv6. Justification for the IP space is easy, however the truth is that a /64 is more than we need in all locations. However the last I heard was that you can't effectively announce anything smaller than a /48. Is this still true?
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> Is this likely to change in the immediate future, or do I need to ask for a /44?
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> Jo Rhett
> Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects.
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