[96874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Tue May 29 08:41:58 2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:37:52 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705290841400.14037@netcore.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:45:38AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote:
> >What is the smallest IPv6 advertisement that organizations are going to
> >honour- are we still looking at a minimum of a /48?
>
> Anything more specific than /32 is going to be filtered at some
> portion of the ISPs whether for the good or bad. There are some
> subsets of the v6 address space that have a higher chance of /48
> working (for some definition of 'working') than other parts of the
> address space, though.
>
perhaps you might better phrase this as; " Anything more specific
than a /3 is going to be filtered at some portion of the ISPS whether
for the good or bad."
just because you have a prefix of (any) size, does not assure
that everyone will route it.
--bill
