Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Mon Jan 7 22:25:42 UTC 2008


John Dupuy 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.

If one doesn't look then you won't find it.

> 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.)

http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/network/wzr-ampg300nh/

http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/

Any device with a docsis 3.0 cable modem embedded in it (Scientific
atlanta/cisco DRG2800 for example)

probably more now that CES is going on right now.

etc

just an anecdote real quick.

So I stayed on a small guest house on the southern outskirts of Toyko a
couple of weeks ago and along with the luxury of getting breakfast with
my $80 a night 9-tatami room, the complimentary wifi shared with 4 other
guests had v4 and v6 provided via kddi residental vdsl. My hostess who
was 75 if she was a day had email down pretty well but I wouldn't
characterize her a technical user.

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




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