IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 03:47:01 UTC 2014

Why would you only allocate a residential customer a single /64?

That's totally short sighted in my view.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
wrote:

> We are going thru a similar process.. from all of my reading, best
> practice discussions etc..
>
> Here is what i have understood so far:-
>
> Residential Customers:   /64
>
> Small & Medium size Business Customers: /56
>
> Large Business size or a multi-location Business Customer: /48
>
> Don't skimp on allocating the subnets like we do on IPv4
> Better to be 'wasteful' than have to come back to re-number or re-allocate
> .
>
> Regards
>
>
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erik Sundberg" <ESundberg at nitelusa.com>
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 9:18:16 PM
> > Subject: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving
> out
> >
> > I am planning out our IPv6 deployment right now and I am trying to
> figure out
> > our default allocation for customer LAN blocks. So what is everyone
> giving
> > for a default LAN allocation for IPv6 Customers.  I guess the idea of
> > handing a customer /56 (256 /64s) or  a /48 (65,536 /64s) just makes me
> > cringe at the waste. Especially when you know 90% of customers will never
> > have more than 2 or 3 subnets. As I see it the customer can always ask
> for
> > more IPv6 Space.
> >
> > /64
> > /60
> > /56
> > /48
> >
> > Small Customer?
> > Medium Customer?
> > Large Customer?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Erik
> >
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