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Re: ISP customer assignments
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed () googlemail com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:37:20 +0100
I would disagree. IPv6 is designed around class boundaries which, in my understanding, are: A layer two network gets assigned a /64 A customer gets assigned a /48
A "site" gets assigned a /48. It could be a customer site, or one of your many sites or one of a customer's many sites. I interpret "site" to roughly be within a single building, although a campus type arrangement could be considered a single site if the network architects want to do it that way.
An ISP gets assigned a /32 (unless they need more)
If your complaint is that all devices in a /64 are going to see IPv6 broadcast/multicast packets from the rest of the devices in that subnet, then don't assign 2^64 devices to that subnet.
Indeed!
I still don't understand why its infuriating to you, but I can certainly tell that it is.
It's purely a case of stage 2 which is a good thing IMHO, since it shows some movement forwards past denial. Confronting the Reality of Emotional Denial and Grief <http://www.cu.ipv6tf.org/pdf/CACH2F0T.pdf> BTW, that PDF really *is* about IPv6 deployment. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: ISP customer assignments, (continued)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Ricky Beam (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 06)
- RE: ISP customer assignments TJ (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
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- Re: ISP customer assignments Dan White (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments TJ (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments James Hess (Oct 06)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Dillon (Oct 08)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Steven Bellovin (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Owen DeLong (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Thomas (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments David Andersen (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments Michael Thomas (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments David Barak (Oct 05)
- Re: ISP customer assignments David Conrad (Oct 05)