IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

Mon Jan 28 19:54:45 UTC 2013

On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:03 , Joe Maimon <jmaimon at ttec.com> wrote:

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> Eugeniu Patrascu wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Dimow <paveldimow at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As being personally involved deploying IPv6 on an enterprise network,
>> here's how I did it (keeping in mind the fact that we have our own
>> ASN):
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> I suggest this be step 0
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Yes.

>> - get a /48 PI from the local LIR
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> And this be step 1
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No, this is step 2 and /48 is not necessarily the right answer.

Step 1 is to evaluate your network and figure out your addressing needs.

If you have a single corporate office and are not an ISP, then /48 is fine.

If you have multiple locations, then a /48 per location is more appropriate.

If you are an ISP, then you need to look at a more involved address planning exercise.

Owen