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Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
From: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list () socket net>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:08 -0600
If you go to http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/IPv6_Presentations_and_Documents there is at least one presentation from Comcast, a residential broadband provider who explained that they simply cannot continue in business without IPv6. They started IPv6 deployment planning in 2005. If you don't know of CPE that supports IPv6, maybe you should ask a broadband ISP that is serious about surviving in business past the crunch of 2010.
I agree. I regularly ask my vendors when IPv6 support is coming. All of them, from ComTrend to Zoom to 3com to etc. have stated that they are not even started working on IPv6 yet. They all plan on it, though, for what that is worth. The closest I've found so far is the soho boxes from cisco. Not really aimed at the residential market, however.
Business-level service is supported now, of course.
We will probably disagree about this one. I will probably give out /48 to residential broadband when we expand IPv6 to residential. But dialup users typically have zero networks; not even the single LAN of res broadband. The "CPE" is the laptop (or PC) they dialed in with. ARIN says "/64 when it is known that one and only one subnet is needed".IMO, the only answers so far: businesses get /48 dialup gets /64Wrong! The answer so far is that EVERYBODY gets a /48, but if you think that there is a risk that you won't be able to get additional /32s when yououtgrow your first allocation, then give a /56 to RESIDENTIAL SITES. This is not the same as dialup, i.e. residential sites could beconnected with DSL, T1s, wireless, or whatever. In fact, if a business isconnected via dialup, you should give them a /48, because businesses have a habitof continuous growth, unlike residences which tend to top out at 5 or 6 residents.
Not that changing "all" of our IPv6 dialup users would take more than a couple of calls :). Talk about a narrow niche.
John
Current thread:
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?, (continued)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Rick Astley (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? James Hess (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Jeff Aitken (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Deepak Jain (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? John Dupuy (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Mark Smith (Jan 07)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? michael.dillon (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? John Dupuy (Jan 07)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? michael.dillon (Jan 08)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Joel Jaeggli (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? John Dupuy (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Joel Jaeggli (Jan 07)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Kenneth Mix (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Niels Bakker (Jan 08)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 08)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Stuart Henderson (Jan 08)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Miguel A. Diaz (Jan 08)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Mohacsi Janos (Jan 03)