FTTH CPE landscape

Scott Helms khelms at ispalliance.net
Fri Aug 5 15:13:38 UTC 2011


> You say waste, I say perfectly valid use.

Its waste to carve out of that many subnets without a good reason (and 
no the reason presented so far are NOT compelling, IPSEC works perfectly 
over a bridged interface).
>
>> If you're dealing with business customers, then your usage versus wasted
>> ratio is much higher and less of a concern, but what's the point? Are you
>> trying to cut down on a large broadcast domain?
>>
> Why is it less of a waste to allocate a /30 to a business using a single public
> IP than it is to a residence? This makes no sense to me.
>
> I simply prefer the additional troubleshooting and other capabilities given
> to me in a routed environment in most cases.
If you want that then you need to run a router not have a /30 routed 
over your WAN interface.  Its far better for your WAN interface to be 
part of a much larger subnet that we can in turn route a network to.
>
> Owen
>


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