On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 00:12, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Jon Lawrence wrote:
opinion). I suppose I could assign a /48 to each customer in the datacenter (to reach the magic 200) but most customers have only *one* server, so that would be a big waste of space.
Actually, "waste of space" is a non-argument for IPv6-to-customer assignments - you have 65k /48s (at least), which should make for a fairly big datacenter.
The policy says "every customer gets a /48", except in very specific circumstances.
(By the way: we don't assign /48s to our *datacenter* customers either - every datacenter customer VLAN gets a /64, no matter if "one single machine" or "hundreds". As soon as the customer has "more infrastructure" behind his VLAN, or a separate internet access product, he'll get the /48, of course).
I usually like to think of it like: - a 'link', thus a network which is not routed gets a /64. - a routed network gets a /48. The first includes p2p _links_, tunnel _links_ etc. But also an IX with one shared medium counts as a link, even if there are 100.000 devices on that same link. When there is a router in the riddle, then give them a /48. Which is just like you mentioned with 'more infrastructure'. Greets. Jeroen