Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?
Scott Weeks
surfer at mauigateway.com
Thu Oct 11 21:25:16 UTC 2012
--- jrhett at netconsonance.com wrote:
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com>
I've finally convinced $DAYJOB to deploy IPv6. Justification for the IP space is easy, however the truth is that a /64 is more than we need in all locations. However the last I heard was that you can't effectively announce anything smaller than a /48. Is this still true?
Is this likely to change in the immediate future, or do I need to ask for a /44?
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A /48 is 65536 /64s and a /44 is 16x65536 /64s. If you
only need one subnet (1 subnet = 1 /64), why would you
try to get 16x65536 subnets, rather than the 65536 you
have in the /48?
scott
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