On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:31 +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:

Hello, do you have suggestions, recommendations, "don't do that"s about how to subnet and assign IPv6 address space to a backbone network out of the /32 that we got allocated ? Since we are starting from scratch, I'm especially interested in hearing about things absolutely to avoid. I was thinking of giving a /48 for each pop (plus a couple of /48 for our offices), maybe with some hierarchical structure so that all POPs in the same continent are also in the same /something.

Didn't you have to give any documentation about your network at all to the RIR from which you received this allocation? I would expect them to at least as where you have your customers and how much space you would be giving you. As the design of your network really completely depends on where you have your network and where you have your clients and also, don't forget maybe not important for you but it will be for your followers if you expect your organization to be around for a while, where they will be in the coming 50 years and longer... In general you will be giving a /48 per client, if you are not you are either lying to the RIR's or you are dead sure they only have one link you could give them a /64. Thus estimate how many clients you will have at a certain location in the coming X years, times /48, round it up quite some bit to a nice multiple of 2 so that it nicely fits and tada.

Pointers to the right words to put in "justfuckinggoogleit" to return something useful are welcome too ;-)

"school network administration planning" ? Greets, Jeroen