[157242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Carpenter)
Thu Oct 11 18:08:46 2012
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:08:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
In-Reply-To: <20121011150959.2F4CCF87@resin11.mta.everyone.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > ----------------------------------------------------
>
> > A /48 is 65536 /64s and a /44 is 16x65536 /64s. If you
> > only need one subnet (1 subnet = 1 /64), why would you
> > try to get 16x65536 subnets, rather than the 65536 you
> > have in the /48?
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>
> He said it was for multiple sites.
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>
> DOH!
> Note to self: focus on the outage and don't respond to NANOG
> while troubleshooting. ;-)
>
>
> scott
Sometimes a brief distraction can be therapeutic when under pressure ;-)
-Randy
