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Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:10:35 -0500

On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sthaug () nethelp no wrote:

I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need
/48s. No, I don't think "that makes all the address assignments the
same size" is a particularly relevant or convincing argument.

We're doing /56 for residential users, and have no plans to change
this.

+1

This not only makes pop assignments easier, it gives a much larger prefix rotation pool. Don't start the flame on rotating prefixes being evil. It's my implementation to at least give customers some chance at prefix privacy.


Jack


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