[172420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 18 14:10:43 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140618160751.59276.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:05:32 -0700
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 18, 2014, at 09:07 , John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>> My cable company assigns my home network a /50. I can figure out =
what
>>> to do with two of the /64s (wired and wireless networks), but I'm
>>> currently stumped on the other 16,382 of them. ...
>=20
>> I figure that with the larger allocations to homes or offices the =
question
>> isn't "how do I allocate all of these" but "how do I delegate chunks =
of
>> this in a hierarchical manner."
>=20
> Or even, how do I allocate them at all. My D-Link wifi router can
> pick up a /64 and route it to its own LAN (wired and wifi bridged) and
> that's about it for IPv6 other than port filters to enable some
> inbound connections.
>=20
> It runs Linux so I suppose I could put dd-wrt onto it, but that's more
> fun than I have time for this week.
Yes, but let's please not make network design decisions based on the =
limitations built into one of the cheapest routers on the market =
intended for the lowest of the lowest common denominators.
There are many other examples of CPE that can make use of properly sized =
prefixes (/48 per end site) and there is no reason not to deploy these.
I find the /50 particularly odd as it's not a nibble boundary and very =
close to /48. It's almost certain this is an operator who fails to grasp =
that they could have easily gotten a larger allocation from their RIR if =
they just asked for it and provided the appropriate justification in =
terms of giving /48s to their customers. OTOH, it's far better than =
those ridiculous providers that are screwing over their customers with =
/56s or even worse, /60s.
Sad, really.
Owen
