Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

Mark Smith nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org
Mon Jan 7 21:47:11 UTC 2008


On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:27:57 -0600
John Dupuy <jdupuy-list at socket.net> wrote:

> 
> It should probably be pointed out:
> 
> Asking for practical advice on choosing /48 vs. /56 on a residential 
> broadband CPE is largely unanswerable.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because I don't know of any residential broadband CPEs that support IPv6.
> 
> I want to be wrong about that. Seriously. Send me a link to one. I want 
> to be wrong. (And by residential, I mean a CPE/router/firewall that costs
> less than $150US.)
> 

>From recent presentations I've seen, there's plenty of it in Japan and Korea.

> IMO, the only answers so far:
> 
>   businesses get /48
>   dialup gets /64
> 
> (by default anyway; there are always exceptions)
> 
> John


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