IPv6 Subscriber Access Deployments

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Sep 8 20:41:23 UTC 2015


On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:13:55 -0700, Matthew Kaufman said:
> If you can't hang 4k customers off a switch, why does IPv6 need so many bits for the host portion?

Oh, it doesn't *need* that many.  You can go ahead and run your IPv6 subnets
with a /96 or /112. Just remember that will piss off any hardware that tries
to do SLAAC. or a few other things.... :)
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