Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-07 Thread John Dupuy
It should probably be pointed out: Asking for practical advice on choosing /48 vs. /56 on a residential broadband CPE is largely unanswerable. Why? Because I don't know of any residential broadband CPEs that support IPv6. I want to be wrong about that. Seriously. Send me a link to one. I

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-04 Thread James Hess
On Jan 4, 2008 6:02 PM, Rick Astley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know large mostly unused pools of client IP's make it more difficult to use traditional worm propagation methods in IPv6[1], but if customers move from IPv4 firewalls to IPv6 routers, we still lose an important layer of security.

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2008-01-01 Thread James Hess
On Dec 31, 2007 3:26 PM, Church, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like a natural choice, leaving 80 bits for network addressing. This waste of space seems vaguely familiar to handing out Class A netblocks 20+ years ago. We'll never run out... Maybe it's just me though. The comparison is