Greenfield IPv4 + IPv6 broadband deployment

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Frank Bulk wrote:

> It's a bit much, in our customer base, to require a router.

Could you please elaborate on that?

It's my world view that a majority of people already have a NAT gateway 
(because they want wifi etc), and the people who don't, do they really 
need IPv6 connectivity right away? When they want it, they can purchase a 
router and then have it.

I just see so many downsides with supporting a vendor routed /64 that I 
don't see that I can recommend it. Of course, large deployment hasn't 
happened yet so operationally we don't know what's going to happen.

If you're going to be the default gw of the /64, I think it's a good idea 
to enforce what number of IPv6 addresses and mac addresses you support in 
the service. Handling lots of ND is not going to scale, you really don't 
want to be part of the home network if you can avoid it. Think 50 devices 
which might have multiple IPv6 addresses each. That's a lot of ND and TCAM 
usage.

I'm sure you can get away with it initially, but isn't it better to do it 
right from the start than to have to stop doing it and converting the 
users later?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se