[175126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 9 12:41:41 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1412866047.20084.235.camel@karl>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:32:56 -0700
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It=92s entirely likely that someone attempted to get a /31 from ARIN =
recently and
they most definitely would have been smacked down, but not because they =
couldn=92t
get more than a /32. ARIN will not issue a /31 under current policy, but =
if you need
more than ~48,000 end-sites, you easily qualify for a /28.
Owen
On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:22 -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully gotten a RIR to assign anything bigger than a
>> /32? I seem to recall in recent history someone tried to obtain a =
/31
>> through ARIN and got smacked down. =20
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> Legend has it that the US DOD applied for a /8 - and got smacked
> down :-)
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>> Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the
>> order of 16 million allocations.
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> If, as you should be, you are assigning /48s, it's only 65536. Not =
that
> big. That's why it's the *minimum* allocation. Larger allocations are
> possible and I suspect quite common.
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> Regards, K.
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