Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 16/08/2009, at 1:29 AM, William Herrin wrote: Start with: /32 Sparsely allocate 200 /56's Total remaining space: in excess of /33. In fact, you haven't consumed a single /48. Expandability by altering the netmask: to /40 Largest allocation still possible: only /40 My suggestion was to

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-19 Thread Jack Bates
Nathan Ward wrote: /48s seem flexible enough to me, but perhaps you want to use this technique with /44s or /40s, or something. Given my unusual network consisting of a dozen different telco's, I actually assign each a /40 at a time, then /44-48 in each of their pops depending on expected

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-17 Thread Jack Bates
Jon Lewis wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, David Freedman wrote: Will keep it simple, this is what I (and I suspect many others) do /128 - Loopback (what else?) /126 - Router p2p /112 - Router LAN shared segments (p2mp) Why even go that big on LAN segments? i.e. If you have a LAN/VLAN where

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
William Herrin wrote: The future looks a lot like the past but with more blinking lights. Seriously, I'm pretty nuts when it comes to networking. My basement is AS11875, multihomed with about 35mbps of bandwidth. If I can't imagine how *I* would use more than 16 subnets then it's a safe bet

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-17 Thread Ray Burkholder
Why is is necessary insist that using bits in a fashion that doesn't require that growth be predicated on requests for additional resources be considered wasteful? Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Burkholder wrote: Why is is necessary insist that using bits in a fashion that doesn't require that growth be predicated on requests for additional resources be considered wasteful? Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to contain broadcasts, ill-behaved

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-17 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Ray Burkholder wrote: Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery crap that exists on any given segment? And if we have to segment in such a fashion, the request and

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, David Freedman wrote: Will keep it simple, this is what I (and I suspect many others) do /128 - Loopback (what else?) /126 - Router p2p /112 - Router LAN shared segments (p2mp) Why even

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or having an address configuration server attached to the segment to manage addresses) when dealing with Ethernet in the last 27 years or so? Why is that,

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0900 Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or having an address configuration server attached to the segment to manage

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-16 Thread Skeeve Stevens
/in/skeeve ; facebook.com/eintellego -- NOC, NOC, who's there? -Original Message- From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jer...@unfix.org] Sent: Saturday, 15 August 2009 1:18 AM To: Chris Gotstein Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Chris Gotstein wrote: We are a small ISP

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to recommend it. The basic problem we ran in to was that there weren't enough B's for everyone who needed more than a C and there weren't enough A's period. So we started handing out groups of disaggregate C's and that path led

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Nathan Ward
On 15/08/2009, at 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to recommend it. The basic problem we ran in to was that there weren't enough B's for everyone who needed more than a C and there weren't enough A's period. So we started handing out

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 00:38 -0400, William Herrin wrote: With IPv6 we have more than enough addresses to give a /56 to everybody who needs more than a /60 and a /48 to everybody who needs more than a /56. I don't think this is a good assumption to make. Just because the namespace

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Randy Bushra...@psg.com wrote: I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to recommend it. The basic problem we ran in to was that there weren't enough B's for everyone who needed more than a C and there weren't enough A's period. So we

IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Gotstein
We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network. We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running dual stack. Wondering if someone out there would be willing to give me a few pointers on setting up my addressing scheme? I've

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
Chris Gotstein wrote: We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network. We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running dual stack. Wondering if someone out there would be willing to give me a few pointers on setting up my

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Gotstein
I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing scheme. Reading over the RFC's and other IPv6 resources, we have decided to hand out /56's to small/home/SOHO customers

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Chris Gotstein wrote: I'm just not able to wrap my brain around the subnetting that needs to be done on the router. One of the things which has struck me as being fairly insane about current recommended 'best practices' for IPv6 addressing is the practice

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread David Freedman
Chris Gotstein wrote: I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing scheme. Reading over the RFC's and other IPv6 resources, we have decided to hand out /56's to

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Celeste Anderson
Sounds like an excellent topic for a tutorial/talk/panel at the next NANOG. --celeste. - Original Message - From: Chris Gotstein ch...@uplogon.com Date: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:04 am Subject: IPv6 Addressing Help To: Nanog nanog@nanog.org We are a small ISP that is in the process

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:49 AM, David Freedman wrote: Chris Gotstein wrote: I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing scheme. Reading over the RFC's and other

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread steve ulrich
: Chris Gotstein ch...@uplogon.com Date: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:04 am Subject: IPv6 Addressing Help To: Nanog nanog@nanog.org We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network.  We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, David Freedman wrote: Will keep it simple, this is what I (and I suspect many others) do /128 - Loopback (what else?) /126 - Router p2p /112 - Router LAN shared segments (p2mp) Why even go that big on LAN segments? i.e. If you have a LAN/VLAN where you have say 20

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Larry Blunk
Randy Bush wrote: /126 - Router p2p /127, see MATSUZAKI Yoshinobu gave a talk describing the ping pong attack on /127 at a ripe or apricot or both. both web sites are absolutely horrid at letting one find talks (see nanog for an example of good). randy Here's a link to the talk

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread TJ
-Original Message- From: Roland Dobbins [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Chris Gotstein wrote: I'm just not able to wrap my brain around the subnetting that needs to be done on the router. One of the things which has struck me as being fairly insane about current

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Chris Gotsteinch...@uplogon.com wrote: We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network.  We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running dual stack.  Wondering if someone out there would be willing

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
TJ wrote: [..] A great counter-point to this is that if you do use /64s (or for that matter - anything shorter than the currently-not-recommended /127s, AFAIK), you should apply ACLs to them to prevent ping-pong. One should be doing uRPF at minimum on all links anyway. BCP84 ;) If the user

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
William Herrin wrote: [..] I'm not aware of any way of dynamically assigning an IPv6 subnet to a customer that's as well automated as IPv4 /32 dynamic assignment to a DSL router with an RFC1918 NATed interior, but that may just be my ignorance since I haven't needed to research it. DHCP-PD

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:26 PM, trej...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, RIPE allocated a /19 to France Telecom. Doesn't take more than a few hundred thousand allocations like that one to wipe out the IPv6 address space. Do we expect a few hundred thousand places that need 2^29 (500M, give or

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Fredy Kuenzler
Hi, Chris Gotstein schrieb: We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network. We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running dual stack. Wondering if someone out there would be willing to give me a few pointers on setting up my

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4a85878a.2000...@uk.clara.net, David Freedman writes: Chris Gotstein wrote: I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing scheme. Reading over

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Cool. So we'll have $100 CPE which uses it in a relatively idiot-proof manner sometime between now and eternity. More now than eternity - To: UKNOF uk...@lists.uknof.org.uk Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:26:44 +0100 Marco Hogewoning of Dutch ISP XS4ALL talks about the roll out of IPv6 in

RE: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread David Freedman
: IPv6 Addressing Help In message 4a85878a.2000...@uk.clara.net, David Freedman writes: Chris Gotstein wrote: I think we had to let ARIN know the time frame of deploying IPv6 and how many customers we expected to put on in the first couple years. They did not ask for an addressing

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread Nathan Ward
On 15/08/2009, at 1:03 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote: We are a small ISP that is in the process of setting up IPv6 on our network. We already have the ARIN allocation and i have a couple routers and servers running dual stack. Wondering if someone out there would be willing to give me a few

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-14 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Nathan Wardna...@daork.net wrote: you are reinventing classful addressing, and when one POP or city grows too large, you have to make exceptions to your rules. Nathan, I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to recommend it. The basic