On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tony Hain wrote: > > Suppose that you want to give each 'modem user' > > a fixed prefix, how soon do you run out of prefixes? > > If you assign a /48 to the pop and allocate /64's to the customers, you > will run out when you exceed 65536 active users. If the pop has more > ports than that, assign a /47.
I'm broadening the topic to include all kinds of home users, e.g. xDSL, Cable etc. in addition to dial-in. This is in conflict with IAB/IESG recommendations for address assignments (draft-iesg-ipv6-addressing-recommendations-03.txt). A RIR policy issue, though. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
