IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 14:41:56 UTC 2014

I've been using /36s per location, but hm -- great question.

How easy is it to get a larger allocation anyway? In RIPE, i.e: you just 
ask and get a /29 with no questions asked.

On 10/9/2014 午後 11:31, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
>>> Selection of a default prefix is easy.  Here are the steps.
>>>
>>> 4. Keeping in mind
>>>
>>>          4.1 Prefixes longer than somewhere around /48 to /56 may be
>>>          excluded from the global routing table
>> 4.1a Prefix cutouts of any size (including /48) from inside your /32
>> or larger block may be excluded from the global routing table. Folks
>> who are multihomed and thus need to advertise their own block with BGP
>> should be referred to ARIN for a direct assignment. Folks who aren't
>> multihomed, well, until given evidence otherwise I claim there are no
>> single-homed entities who will use 65,000 LANs, let alone more.
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> This brings up another interesting question...
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> We operate Two separate networks in two geographical locations (Two ASN), we have a single /32 allocation from ARIN.
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> Question:  Should we be asking ARIN for another /32 so that each network has it's own /32  or should be break out the /32 into /36 and use these in each of the geographies ?
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> Regards
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> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom