They are in need of some serious education; but I'm not volunteering to be
the one to do it!

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have now dealt with two UK providers who, when asked to add IPv6 to a
> business connection, have insisted on configuring a flat /48 on the CPE LAN
> port.
>
> I was expecting them to configure a /64 interconnect on the LAN port, plus
> a /48 static route pointing to the customer's own router or firewall - or
> possibly DHCP prefix delegation.
>
> As far as I can see, a flat /48 is going to require the customer to run
> NDP proxying for every block of /64 they use internally; and the CPE will
> end up maintaining separate NDP entries for every device inside the
> customer's network.
>
> It seems broken by design to me. Am I right, or is this considered a
> reasonable way to interconnect these days?
>
> Is it just because these ISPs don't understand IPv6, or they don't want to
> deal with managing static routes on the CPE?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>

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