Brian Johnson wrote: > So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would > be given 2^64 addresses?
No, that's a single subnet, typically they should be assigned more than that. > 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 >
