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Re: IPv6 Subscriber Access Deployments


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:41:23 -0400

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:13:55 -0700, Matthew Kaufman said:
If you can't hang 4k customers off a switch, why does IPv6 need so many bits for the host portion?

Oh, it doesn't *need* that many.  You can go ahead and run your IPv6 subnets
with a /96 or /112. Just remember that will piss off any hardware that tries
to do SLAAC. or a few other things.... :)

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