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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:21:32 +0100
On 2 jan 2008, at 6:42, Christopher Morrow wrote:
out of curiousity how is this sort of thing supposed to be done in v6? (traffic engineering given the '1 prefix per ISP' standard mantra)
AS path prepending, local preference, that kind of thing...
Static assignments of /56 to customers make sense to me, and that's the assumption I've made when suggesting the addressing scheme I proposed.Once you go static with /56s, you may as well make it easy for both yourself and the customer to move to a /48 that encompasses the original /56 (or configure the whole /48 for them from the outset).
I think the assumption most folks make with DSL/cable is that end-users get dynamic assignments from a local (to the PE device) pool, similar to ipv4. I suppose you could do static assignments, but there's a management payment there that might not fit within the ISP's cost plan.
There is no "static" and "dynamic", only points along a line... Obviously you don't want your customers to renumber every day and twice on sunday, but you also don't want to keep configurations specific for each customer. A good DHCP server will keep giving you the same address until it's forced to give that address to someone else when you're not using it, or until it loses its assignment history. I assume something similar will happen here for most customers.
I presume that something accepting PD would be smart enough to let the end-hosts/lans know when their top 56 bits changed...
Cisco routers can change their RAs based on a new PD prefix and even align the lifetimes so the renumbering happens very smoothly.
and v6 includes auto-renumbering for 'free' right?
Yes, that must be why IPv6-capable firewalls are still hard to find. :-)
Current thread:
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 01)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Jan 01)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Christopher Morrow (Jan 01)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers sthaug (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Joe Abley (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Donald Stahl (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Donald Stahl (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Vinny Abello (Jan 02)
- RE: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Azinger, Marla (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Jan 01)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Christopher Morrow (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Joe Abley (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Deepak Jain (Jan 02)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Simon Lyall (Jan 02)
- How to do sites when you have a distributed organization with no own network (Was: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers) Jeroen Massar (Jan 03)