On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 13:54:07 +0100, Roger Jørgensen <rogerj@gmail.com> said:
> It's a good start, but could you rewrite the part on "Address > Allocation"
Well, yes, that was just a placeholder sentence! But I've made the change as you asked. I'm not sure I agree though, and the reason is not to do with efficiency of address space use but operational ease of provisioning.
Operationally, what does this mean? The most common case is going to be a single subnet, so how is the gateway going to know which one out of the /56 to use? Somebody has to pick a /64 to put on the inside ethernet interface. How is this done? No problem *assigning* a /56 but using it is another matter.
ah I see, bad wording from my side. Any _end-user_ should get minimum a /56 for their use, an assignment. How they use that assignment are another technical matter - that's the operational side. On the actual use of IPv6 addresses I guess https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-6man-why64-01 is a better source for information. It mention cases where a /64 is the best choice, and where other sizes can, and can not be used. -- Roger Jorgensen | ROJO9-RIPE rogerj@gmail.com | - IPv6 is The Key! http://www.jorgensen.no | roger@jorgensen.no