[167182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mos)
Tue Dec 3 03:44:12 2013
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:44:00 +0100
From: Seth Mos <seth.mos@dds.nl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <op.w7hhspintfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2-12-2013 22:25, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:39:59 -0500, Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
> Handing out /56's like Pez is just wasting address space -- someone *is*
> paying for that space. Yes, it's waste; giving everyone 256 networks
You clearly have no understanding of route aggregation which just made
it's entry into the soho.
The router will set up it's own DHCP-PD prefix delegation for downstream
routers. Without a /56 or larger it is very hard to do automatically.
It is not "wasting" it is "required" for proper operation of a routing
internet. You can't just NAT a downstream router and still have IPv6.
People buy extra wifi routers at their favorite shop and *will* plug the
cable into the "Internet" port. With IPv6 and DHCP-PD they will still
get working IPv6 internet. Great!
Cheers,
Seth
