Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?

Randy Carpenter rcarpen at network1.net
Thu Oct 11 22:06:09 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
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> On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
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> so there really is no drawback from getting the /44, and having
> enough space to not have to worry about it in the future.
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> It's only a worry if you can only route /48s, which was my question.
> And seriously, we're going to be banging around in the emptiness as
> compared to our IPv4 allocations. :)

You can route /48 or shorter (larger)

How many sites do you have? If less than 192, /44 is perfect, unless some of those sites require more than a /48. Then, it gets more complicated :-)

-Randy




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