Re: IPv6 Subscriber Access Deployments

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Sure, but this is a useless savings that comes at the cost of awkward traceroute output
that will initially confuse your new employees and consistently confuse your customers.

Owen

> On Sep 8, 2015, at 12:46 , Clinton Work <clinton () scripty com> wrote:
>
> If you use separate VLANs for each customer then the CPE router doesn't
> even require an external IPV6 address for DHCPv6-PD.  IPV6 link-local
> addresses can be used between your BRAS and customer CPE router.  Some
> CPEs can even allocate a WAN/mgmt IPV6 address out of the delegated
> subnet via DHCPv6-PD.   
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015, at 01:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > Short answer to that is “DHCPv6-PD”
> >
> > Once the router has an external address communicating point to point with
> > the ISP router, it should then send an DHCPv6-PD request asking for a
> > prefix that it can manage. The ISPs DHCP server should then send back a
> > /48 (or if you want to be silly, a /56 or a /60, and if you want to be
> > insane, a /64).