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Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
- Subject: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
- From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:52:29 -0700
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On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Ankers <md1clv at md1clv.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2014 19:05, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> OTOH, it's far better than those ridiculous providers that are screwing over their customers with /56s or even worse, /60s.
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> Sad, really.
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> Owen
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> Is giving a /56 to residential customers REALLY "screwing them over"?
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> It may be a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm struggling to come up with use cases for the home which would take up even 10% of the networks available in a /56. And if the vast, vast majority of home users will never come close to needing the whole of a /56 then I don't see why every home should be given a /48.
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> Dan
Yesâ?¦ Itâ??s not about the number of subnets, itâ??s about having enough bits wide to automate a hierarchy. 8 bits only allows 1x8 or 2x4, while 16 bits allows significantly more flexibility in topology.
Owen