ISP customer assignments

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Mon Oct 5 21:49:39 UTC 2009



Brian Johnson wrote:
> So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would be given 2^64 addresses?

No, that's a single subnet, typically they should be assigned more than
that.

> I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 for a single device!
> 
> Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
> 
> - Brian
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm at rollernet.us]
>> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:38 AM
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
>>
>> Brian Johnson wrote:
>>> >From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is
>> for
>>> assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it
>> is
>>> currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong?
>>>
>> The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one
>> subnet, /56 if they need more than one.
>>
>> ~Seth
> 




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