using IPv6 address block across multiple locations

Tue Nov 1 19:20:23 UTC 2011

My take on the issue is that your providers are wise in not wanting to
accept prefixes longer than /48s.

You should get multiple prefixes, from the same or different RIRs. If
there are policies in place which do not allow you to do so, I think
it's a good time to discuss them.

regards

Carlos

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Dmitry Cherkasov <doctorchd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please advice what is the best practice to use IPv6 address block
> across distributed locations.
>
> Recently we obtained our PI /48 from RIPE. The idea was to assign
> partial slices from this block to different locations (we have
> currently 3 offices in Europe and 2 in USA). All locations are
> interconnected with static VPNs. Each location is supposed to
> establish BGP session with local ISP. Partial prefix /56 + aggregate
> /48 (with long AS PATH) are to be announced by each office.
>
> The problem we ran across is that ISP in US does not wish to accept
> prefixes longer then /48 from us.
> Need your advice: is this normal to distribute /48 by /56 parts across
> locations or should we obtain separate /48 for each of them? Or maybe
> we need /32 that can be split into multiple /48? Anyway we are not ISP
> so /48 looks quite reasonable and sufficient for all our needs.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Dmitry Cherkasov
>
>

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