IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu Oct 9 14:47:27 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:22 -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> Has anyone successfully gotten a RIR to assign anything bigger than a
> /32?  I seem to recall in recent history someone tried to obtain a /31
> through ARIN and got smacked down.  

Legend has it that the US DOD applied for a /8 - and got smacked
down :-)

> Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the
> order of 16 million allocations.

If, as you should be, you are assigning /48s, it's only 65536. Not that
big. That's why it's the *minimum* allocation. Larger allocations are
possible and I suspect quite common.

Regards, K.

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