On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 12:36, Tom Bird <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 20/02/2020 12:07, Richard Halfpenny wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On what connectivity (colo/fibre/etc)?
>
> Just on ethernet terminated circuits to customer premises (not PPPoE).
>
> I think for colo people still expect a /29 or so but for access it feels
> wrong to be wasting those precious $20 IP addresses if we don't need to,
> and I think we should be fine with /31 (and ipv6 of course) but just
> wanted to float the idea in case I was missing anything.
>


Perhaps make the client believe it's in something like a /24 or /25, set
gateway to proxy arp for everything and carry /32 routes in the access
layer?  IIRC that's how a test GPON circuit from another partner provider
we have here works - Nokia/Alcatel MAC at the far side.

Rich.

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