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RE: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
From: "STARNES, CURTIS" <Curtis.Starnes () granburyisd org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:18:36 -0500
On 18 June 2014 19:05, Daniel Ankers <md1clv () md1clv com>replied:
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ankers Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:37 PM To: Owen DeLong; nanog () nanog org list Subject: Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering On 18 June 2014 19:05, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:OTOH, it's far better than those ridiculous providers that are screwing over their customers with /56s or even worse, /60s. Sad, really. OwenIs giving a /56 to residential customers REALLY "screwing them over"? It may be a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm struggling to come up with use cases for the home which would take up even 10% of the networks available in a /56. And if the vast, vast majority of home users will never come close to needing the whole of a /56 then I don't see why every home should be >given a /48. Dan
I have to agree with Dan on this one, Look at the numbers (especially for small to mid-sized business and residential): /56 = 256 /64's subnets /60 = 16 /64's subnets http://www.sixscape.com/joomla/sixscape/index.php/ipv6-training-certification/ipv6-forum-official-certification/ipv6-forum-network-engineer-silver/network-engineer-silver-ipv6-subnetting/ipv6-subnetting-general-subnetting At 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 per /64, that is a lot of address. Right now I cannot get IPv6 at home so I will take getting "screwed" with a /56 or /60 and be estatic about it. Curtis
Current thread:
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering, (continued)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering manning bill (Jun 17)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Daniel Ankers (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering John Levine (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Owen DeLong (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering John R. Levine (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Lee Howard (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Daniel Ankers (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering James R Cutler (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Gary Buhrmaster (Jun 18)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- RE: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering STARNES, CURTIS (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Daniel Ankers (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Peter Kristolaitis (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Harald Koch (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Daniel Ankers (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering James R Cutler (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 19)
- Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering Bryan Socha (Jun 17)