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Re: ISP customer assignments

  • From: Ricky Beam
  • Date: Tue Oct 13 21:19:47 2009

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:33:03 -0400, Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com> wrote:
He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll write back when we get into that discussion.
It's the IPv6 equiv of an IPv4 /30 link network. Then a /64 or whatever can be aimed to that link address. This is exactly what Bellsouth does for business DSL: the link has a dynamic address and your netblock is then routed to it. (this is confusing and unworkable for a lot of cheap hardware.)





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