IPv6 Advertisements

bmanning at karoshi.com bmanning at karoshi.com
Tue May 29 12:37:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:45:38AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote:
> >What is the smallest IPv6 advertisement that organizations are going to 
> >honour- are we still looking at a minimum of a /48?
> 
> Anything more specific than /32 is going to be filtered at some 
> portion of the ISPs whether for the good or bad.  There are some 
> subsets of the v6 address space that have a higher chance of /48 
> working (for some definition of 'working') than other parts of the 
> address space, though.
> 
	perhaps you might better phrase this as; " Anything more specific
	than a /3 is going to be filtered at some portion of the ISPS whether
	for the good or bad."

	just because you have a prefix of (any) size, does not assure 
	that everyone will route it.

--bill



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