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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:49:47 +1030
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:11:54 +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> wrote:
On 27 dec 2007, at 11:57, sthaug () nethelp no wrote:"Configure this stuff manually" may work for a small number of customers. It is highly undesirable (and probably won't be considered at all) in an environment with, say, 1 million customers.Of course not. But RAs on a subnet with a million customers doesn't work either, nor does DHCP on a subnet with a million customers. If we're talking about provisioning cable/DSL/FTTH users, that's a completely different thing. Here, DHCPv6 prefix delegation to a CPE which then provides configuration to hosts on its LAN side would be the most appropriate option. However, the specifics of that model need to be worked out as there are currently no ISPs and no CPEs that do that, as far as I know.
I haven't had a chance to test it, but according to "Deploying IPv6 Networks", IOS can support DHCPv6 based prefix delegation. It even supports multiple downstream interfaces on the CPE - you configure the subnet number you want on each of the interfaces, and the CPE will configure the DHCP-PD learned /48 on the front of them automatically and then start announcing those prefixes in RAs out those interfaces. Regards, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers, (continued)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Florian Weimer (Dec 26)
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- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Florian Weimer (Dec 26)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Tony Li (Dec 26)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 26)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Leo Bicknell (Dec 26)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers sthaug (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers sthaug (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Leo Bicknell (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Christopher Morrow (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Leo Bicknell (Dec 27)
- [DCHPv6] was Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers James R. Cutler (Dec 27)
- Re: [DCHPv6] was Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers David Barak (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Marshall Eubanks (Dec 27)