RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-08 Thread Miguel A. Diaz
nombre de John Dupuy Enviado el: lunes, 07 de enero de 2008 22:28 Para: NANOG list Asunto: Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? It should probably be pointed out: Asking for practical advice on choosing /48 vs. /56 on a residential broadband CPE is largely unanswerable. Why? Because I

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:53:24 -0500 William Herrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 11:25 AM, Tim Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only assuming the nature of your mistake is 'turn it off'. Do you mean to tell me there's actually such a thing as a network engineer who creates

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-04 Thread Rick Astley
As much as I don't want to resurrect this conversation again or beat a dead (now glued) horse: In the SOHO arena, today's NAT users may or may not opt to use SPI down the road. Many people just opt for the cheapest working solution and use defaults, so what we end up depends on what vendors like

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Astley
* /32 for ISPs unless they can justify more * /48 for subscribers unless they can justify more * /64 when you know for certain that one and only one subnet will ever be required * /128 when you know for certain you're dealing with a single device * Sparse allocation so whichever size you choose

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Astley
On Jan 3, 2008 3:52 AM, Rick Astley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take someone like Comcast with ~12 million subscribers. It would take an IPv6 /24 to get 16.7 million /48's (2^24). With a net efficiency of 10% they are going to need to be allocated 120 million /48's. It would take a /21 to give

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Rick Astley wrote: Some of the comments here have cleared things up a bit. I suspect we will see NAT doing some 4to6 and 6to4 through migration, but there is little reason to use NAT in place of stateful firewall in the v6 to v6 world. I think RFC3041 (Privacy

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Astley
On Jan 3, 2008 4:10 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Rick Astley wrote: If Bob has a multihomed network, he can't just give one /48 to a customer in NY and the next one to a customer in CA unless he wants to fill up Internet routing tables with /48's,

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Randy Bush
Now instead what I can do is tag my california routes with a california bgp community, and export only those specific routes to you there. This way your traffic to me in NY will not go over this session. dunno about the community in which you peer. but the big kids have pretty much

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread michael.dillon
So if /64 is subnet rather than node then the practice of placing one and only one node per subnet is pretty wasteful. In an IPv6 network, a /64 is the subnet prefix of a single broadcast domain, i.e. a single unbridged Ethernet segment. Within this subnet, there are many /128s which

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread sthaug
No, it gives them 16 bits for subnetting. Everybody gets 64 bits for addressing because everybody (except oddballs and enevelope pushers) uses a /64 subnet size. Since 64 bits are more than anyone could ever possibly need for addressing and 16 bits is more than an end site could ever

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread michael.dillon
No, it gives them 16 bits for subnetting. Everybody gets 64 bits for addressing because everybody (except oddballs and enevelope pushers) uses a /64 subnet size. Since 64 bits are more than anyone could ever possibly need for addressing and 16 bits is more than an end site could

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Donald Stahl
So if /64 is subnet rather than node then the practice of placing one and only one node per subnet is pretty wasteful. The whole point here is flexibility. IEEE defined several standards for globally unique identifiers including EUI-48/MAC-48 and EUI-64. MAC-48 should last us til 2100, but

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Donald Stahl
The only place in which people have noted that there is a possibility of running out of bits in the existing IPv6 addressing hierarchy is when they look at a model where every residential customer gets a /48. In that scenario there is a possibility that we might runout in 50 to 100 years from

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread michael.dillon
Is it even a possibility then? A /48 to everyone means 48 bits left over for the network portion of the address. That's 281,474,976,710,656 /48 customer networks. It's 16 million times the number of class C's in the current IPv4 Internet. Am I just not thinking large or long term

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Donald Stahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It leaves them with 65k subnets to choose from. Would a /56 make more sense? Right now- sure- becaue we lack the imagination to really guess what might happen in the future. Nanobots each with their own address, IP connected

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread michael.dillon
I'd rather push for /48 and have people settle on /56 than push for /56 and have people settle on /64. Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? Look, why are we arguing about this? Why not split the difference? If /48 is too big and /64 is too small, let's go halfway and use /56, OK?

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread William Herrin
On Jan 3, 2008 3:52 AM, Rick Astley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * /32 for ISPs unless they can justify more * /48 for subscribers unless they can justify more Take someone like Comcast with ~12 million subscribers. It would take an IPv6 /24 to get 16.7 million /48's (2^24). With a net

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Donald Stahl
Do you really think that today's allocations are going to be in use (unchanged) when people are building homes out of IPv6-addressed nanobots, or when people are trying to firewall the fridge from the TV remote, etc.? I certainly hope not- but then again I never thought IPv4 would be around

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Donald Stahl
That's 281,474,976,710,656 /48 customer networks. It's 16 million times the number of class C's in the current IPv4 Internet. Am I just not thinking large or long term enough? No, you are just counting wrong. When you are talking /48's you are talking number of bits of of subnet hierarchy,

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Tim Franklin
On Thu, January 3, 2008 3:17 pm, William Herrin wrote: In my ever so humble opinion, IPv6 will not reach significant penetration at the customer level until NAT has been thoroughly implemented. Corporate information security officers will insist. Here's the thing: a stateful non-NAT firewall

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread William Herrin
On Jan 3, 2008 11:25 AM, Tim Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only assuming the nature of your mistake is 'turn it off'. I can fat-finger a 'port-forward *all* ports to important internal server', rather than just '80/TCP' pretty much exactly as easily as I can fat-finger 'permit *all*

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Vinny Abello
Tim Franklin wrote: On Thu, January 3, 2008 3:17 pm, William Herrin wrote: In my ever so humble opinion, IPv6 will not reach significant penetration at the customer level until NAT has been thoroughly implemented. Corporate information security officers will insist. Here's the thing: a

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'd rather push for /48 and have people settle on /56 than push for=20 /56 and have people settle on /64. =20 Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? Look, why are we arguing about this? Why not split the difference? If /48 is too big and /64 is

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Astley
Some of the comments here have cleared things up a bit. I suspect we will see NAT doing some 4to6 and 6to4 through migration, but there is little reason to use NAT in place of stateful firewall in the v6 to v6 world. I think RFC3041 (Privacy Extensions) and RFC4864 (Local Network Protection)

Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread Rick Astley
I see there is a long thread on IPv6 address assignment going, and I apologize that I did not read all of it, but I still have some unanswered questions. I believe someone posted the ARIN recommendation that carriers assign out /64's and /56's, and in a few limited cases, /48. I can understand

RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread michael.dillon
I believe someone posted the ARIN recommendation that carriers assign out /64's and /56's, and in a few limited cases, /48. I can understand corporations getting more than a /64 for their needs, but certainly this does not mean residential ISP subscribers, right? Then you

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread Sascha Lenz
Hi, Rick Astley schrieb: I see there is a long thread on IPv6 address assignment going, and I apologize that I did not read all of it, but I still have some unanswered questions. The basic problem is, there are no answers, that's why there is this and similar discussion every 6 months

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread Joe Greco
I see there is a long thread on IPv6 address assignment going, and I apologize that I did not read all of it, but I still have some unanswered questions. The answers to some of this are buried within it. I believe someone posted the ARIN recommendation that carriers assign out /64's and

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:18:08 -0600 (CST) Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a long thread on IPv6 address assignment going, and I apologize that I did not read all of it, but I still have some unanswered questions. snip Anyways, I suggest you run over and read

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread William Herrin
On Dec 31, 2007 3:25 AM, Rick Astley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand corporations getting more than a /64 for their needs, but certainly this does not mean residential ISP subscribers, right? Rick, The standing recommendations are: * /32 for ISPs unless they can justify more * /48