Not an IPv6 newbie by any stretch, but we still aren’t doing it “at scale” and some of you are, so…

 

For a very small & dense (on 128-bit scales, anyway) network, is RFC3531 still the last word in IPv6 allocation strategies?

 

Right now, we’re just approaching it as “pick the next /64 in the range”, as it all gets aggregated at the BGP border anyway, and internally if I really try hard, I might get to 200 subnets someday.

 

Is there any justification for the labour in doing something more complex like center-allocation in my situation?  Worrying about allocation strategies seems appropriate to me if you have 100,000 subnets, not 100.

 

Opinions wanted, please.

-Adam

 

Adam Thompson

Consultant, Infrastructure Services

MERLIN

100 - 135 Innovation Drive 

Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 

(204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) 

https://www.merlin.mb.ca 

Chat with me on Teams