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:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:38 AM > To: [email protected] > 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
