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Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 18:17:43 -0400
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Oliver O'Boyle <oliver.oboyle () gmail com> wrote:
We're an end-user org and qualify for a /40 assignment because we operate over 60 sites and some of those are/will be multihomed.
Hi Oliver, I second Ken's notion. You're trying to be an ISP under the end-user rules. However transient, your users are mostly customers rather than staff. Just register as an ISP and get the default /32. IIRC, ARIN sparsely allocates IPv6 so if you go back for more addresses there is a high probability they'll just increase your netmask. Finally, /56 or /60 per guest, not /64. IPv6 can do nifty IoT things like collecting all of a guest's devices behind his personal firewall but it doesn't work if you've only assigned a /64. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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