On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
DHCP(v6). Setting the idea in people's heads that a /64 IS going to be their own statically is insane and will blow out provider's own routing tables more than is rational.
Routing table size will be a function of the number of customers - *not* the prefix length assigned to them (for so long as address space is sufficiently sparsely allocated that there's a 1:1 mapping from customer to prefix - which should be "for a long time" with IPv6). So (within that longer term constraint) it doesn't matter if you're allocating your customer a /48, /56 or /64. Indeed, what you're suggesting - smaller-than-64 allocations - *would* increase routing table sizes. With your proposal those indexes would increase greatly in depth (and possibly other space increases due to not being able to optimise for "hierarchical routing of bits past 64 is highly rare"). Think of IPv6 as a 64bit network address + host address. At least for now. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter. -- Freeman Dyson