In your letter dated Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:33:21 -0800 you wrote:
>Philip Homburg wrote:
>> What happens if an organization has a modem bank for dail-in? Do you
>> hand out /64s or something larger? Suppose that you want to give each
>> 'modem user' a fixed prefix, how soon do you run out of prefixes?
>
>Modem users will be more than happy with a /64, because they do not need
>to subnet.
>
>Why would someone want a /68 (or whatever) for the living room, a /68
>for
>the john, a /68 for the kitchen, a /68 for the garage?
The kids get their own networks to play multi-person games, the
light switches go on a separate network, any piece of hardware that is
not completely secure should not be on a broadcast network, so the ADSL or
cable modem, the wireless basestation, etc. each get their own networks.
VPNs may require their own prefixes, etc.
Philip Homburg
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