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Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out


From: Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:47:27 +1100

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.  

Legend has it that the US DOD applied for a /8 - and got smacked
down :-)

Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the
order of 16 million allocations.

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.

Regards, K.

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