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Re: ISP customer assignments
- From: TJ
- Date: Mon Oct 05 12:23:15 2009
Yes, each and every network segment (especially multi-access ones) should be
/64s. Regardless of the types of machines, speed of link, etc. It is an
entirely different model of addressing, whose name just happens to start
with IP ...
/TJ
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com> wrote:
> So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection
> would be given 2^64 addresses?
>
> I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2
> for a single device!
>
> Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
>
> - Brian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us]
> > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:38 AM
> > To: nanog@nanog.org
> > Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
> >
> > Brian Johnson wrote:
> > >>From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is
> > for
> > > assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it
> > is
> > > currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong?
> > >
> >
> > The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one
> > subnet, /56 if they need more than one.
> >
> > ~Seth
>
>
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/TJ
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