In message <alpine.deb.2.00.1110100812380.11...@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Mikael Abrahamsson writes:
 
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Shishio Tsuchiya wrote:
>  
> > 2^64 host address space would be too enough for homenet.
>  
> I would just like to comment on this even though you retracted your 
> question.
>  
> As an ISP, I do not want to participate in a home with hundreds or 
> thousands of active IPv6 addresses that I need to keep state for. Most 
> likely, when we have central equipment participating in a home network, 
> we'll implement a limit on number of neighbours it'll allow on the subnet. 
> Doing ND/NS a lot takes resources.
>  
> If customer wants to use more IPv6 addresses, we'll require them to get a 
> home router and PD address space to it to distribute the ND/NS load.
>  
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se


+1
violent agreement, etc

IMO the ground rules are: The ISP provides one prefix.  The homenet
subdivides it only if there are multiple subnets.  The ISP doesn't see
the longer prefixes that exist only within the homenet.

Curtis
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