[165874] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: minimum IPv6 announcement size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otis L. Surratt, Jr.)
Tue Sep 24 09:47:51 2013
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:47:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5241986D.60902@stluke.com.ph>
From: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com>
To: "Nathanael C. Cariaga" <nccariaga@stluke.com.ph>,
"NANOG Mailing List" <nanog@nanog.org>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathanael C. Cariaga [mailto:nccariaga@stluke.com.ph]=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:50 AM
To: NANOG Mailing List
Subject: minimum IPv6 announcement size
>Hi,
>
>Just wondering if anyone could shed light on my concern.....
>
>I've been Google-ing about if there is such a standard that sets the
minimum IPv6 advertisement on BGP. My concern is that I am running a
network that is operating on multiple sites and currently rolling >out
our IPv6 on the perimeter level. Having to get our /48 allocation from
our RIR, I figured out I would it would be best for us to break down the
>/48 into smaller chunks (i.e /56s) and farm it out to our sites since a
single /48 will be very big for our single site.
>
>Any advise will be very much appreciated.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>-nathan
Minimum announcement for IPv6 as I recall is /48. Some providers might
accept less for their networks.
-Otis
