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Re: ISP customer assignments


From: Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:13:59 -0400

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0500, Brian Johnson wrote:
What would be "wrong" with using a /64 for a customer who only has a
local network? Most home users won't understand what a subnet is.

IPv6 CPE's may be designed to get one subnet per physical media via 
DHCPv6-PD, so for example wireless and wired may be different subnets.  
Really, /56 is the way to go for residential assignments.


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