[165894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Tue Sep 24 23:15:36 2013
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:15:03 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: "Nathanael C. Cariaga" <nccariaga@stluke.com.ph>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5242543C.8020709@stluke.com.ph>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/24/13 8:10 PM, Nathanael C. Cariaga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I raised actually this concern during our IP resource application.
>
> On a personal note, I think /48 IPv6 allocation is more than enough for
> our organization to use for at least the next 5-10 years assuming that
> this can be farmed out to our multiple sites. What makes this
> complicated for us is that we are operating on a multiple sites
> (geographically) with each site is doing multi-homing and having a /48
> in each site would be very big waste of IP resources.
It's not waste and you should adjust the expectations somewhat.
With a /48 You typically have enough bits to do hierachical addressing
plans, prefix delegation and other things which you may need but are not
currently planning for.
> -nathan
>
> On 9/25/2013 2:36 AM, Bryan Socha wrote:
>> Everyone is following the same policies. a /48 PER SITE. did you
>> request enough addresses from your RIR?
>>
>> Bryan Socha
>>
>
>
