Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

Michael Thomas wrote:
> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, michael.dillon () bt com wrote:
> >
> > > > I don't have a problem with assigning customers a /64 of v6
> > > > space.
> > >
> > > Why so little? Normally customers get a /48 except for residential
> > > customers who can be given a /56 if you want to keep track of
> > > different block sizes. If ARIN will give you a /48 for every
> > > customer, then why be miserly with addresses?
> >
> > I don't operate an ISP network (not anymore, anyway...).  My customers
> > are departments within my organization, so a /64 per department/VLAN
> > is more sane/reasonable for my environment.
>
> Uh, the lower 64 bits of an IP6 address aren't used for routing you
> know? They're essentially the mac address, or some other sort of
> autoconf'd host identifier. Last I heard, the smallest allocation is
> supposed to be a /48 -- I hadn't heard of the /56 thing that Michael
> was speaking of, though I'm not surprised. There's 64 bits for
> routing... no need to be so stingy :)

Last time I asked about this on the ipv6 list I got smacked for thinking
about using anything other than a /64 for subnets, even on point to
point links.

~Seth