Yes, each and every network segment (especially multi-access ones) should be /64s. Regardless of the types of machines, speed of link, etc. It is an entirely different model of addressing, whose name just happens to start with IP ...
/TJ On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Brian Johnson <bjohn...@drtel.com> wrote: > So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection > would be given 2^64 addresses? > > I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4 Internet^2 > for a single device! > > Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly? > > - Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:se...@rollernet.us] > > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:38 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments > > > > Brian Johnson wrote: > > >>From what I can tell from an ISP perspective, the design of IPv6 is > > for > > > assignment of a /64 to an end user. Is this correct? Is this how it > > is > > > currently being done? If not, where am I going wrong? > > > > > > > The most common thing I see is /64 if the end user only needs one > > subnet, /56 if they need more than one. > > > > ~Seth > > -- /TJ