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RE: IPv6 Prefix announcing
From: Kate Gerry <kate () quadranet com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:39:02 -0700
Funny enough, some carriers actually require the 'smallest' as being /32... :( -----Original Message----- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner () cluebyfour org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:34 AM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: IPv6 Prefix announcing On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Nick Olsen wrote:
I've always been under the impression its best practice to only announce prefixes of a /24 and above when it comes to IPv4 and BGP. I was wondering if something similar had been agreed upon regarding IPv6. And if That's the case, What's the magic number? /32? /48? /64?
You're likely to get different answers to this, but the 'magic number' appears to be /48. Looking in the v6 BGP table, you will likely find smaller prefixes than that, but a number of the major carriers seem to be settling on /48 as the smallest prefix they will accept. /48 is also the smallest block most of the RIRs will assign to end-users. jms
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