Re: IPv6 Advertisements

[bmanning () karoshi com]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:45:38AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote:
> > What is the smallest IPv6 advertisement that organizations are going to 
> > honour- are we still looking at a minimum of a /48?
>
> Anything more specific than /32 is going to be filtered at some 
> portion of the ISPs whether for the good or bad.  There are some 
> subsets of the v6 address space that have a higher chance of /48 
> working (for some definition of 'working') than other parts of the 
> address space, though.
        perhaps you might better phrase this as; " Anything more specific
        than a /3 is going to be filtered at some portion of the ISPS whether
        for the good or bad."

        just because you have a prefix of (any) size, does not assure 
        that everyone will route it.

--bill