IPv6 and CDN's

Mon Nov 29 07:19:40 UTC 2021

On 11/29/21 00:41, scott wrote:

> Side note: I recently tried to get /48 per customer with ARIN on 
> repeated emails and they refused.  We were already given an IPv6 block 
> a while back.  I told them I wanted to expand it so I could give out a 
> /48 per customer and that we had more than 65535 customers, which is 
> the block we got; 65535 /48s.  I didn't even account for our needs.
>
> Without arguing the reasons, we will have to hand out /56s, rather 
> than /48s because of this.  So, it's not all /48-unicorns, puppies and 
> rainbows.

We have two types of customers - that that get assigned a /48, and those 
that get assigned a /56.

Mark.