Customer IPv6 range assignments.

Jørgen Hovland jorgen at hovland.cx
Thu Jul 27 12:25:10 CEST 2006


-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-ops-bounces+jorgen=hovland.cx at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-bounces+jorgen=hovland.cx at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum

> You should really listen to your customers. One argument in favor of / 
> 48 for everyone is that that way, when a customer changes ISPs, he or  
> she only has to renumber a fixed prefix and not mess with subnet  
> numbering.

As long as this arbitrary chosen number equals to your new prefix length from your new ISP, and perhaps that you don't get prefixes with half octets (like a /93), the prefix length does not matter. That is why 48 is only a recommendation for people who perhaps don't know what to use.




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