On 8/10/18 10:38 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure you got that right.
>
> If you are an ISP the minimum assignment is /32 and you assigned /48 to
> end company and /56 to users.
>
> If you asked me that's a wasted, but that's what they suggest.
>
> For end users, a /64 would be plenty if you asked me and /56 for company
> would be plenty as well.
>
> But if you truly follow their policy, then well may be will run out
> there too like in IPv4 when it really start to be assigned, but anyway
> that's for a different discussion.
>
> Anyway see ARIN policy for it:
>
> https://www.arin.net/vault/policy/archive/ipv6_policy.html
>
> If you are not under ARIN, but RIPE, APNIC, AfriNIC, Lacnic, etc.
>
> They have similar policy.
>
> I would encourage you to check that if your problem is really that you
> got to small assignment.
>
> Unless your a very small ISP that got his assignment from your transit
> provider oppose to your own and get your own AS number, you will have
> plenty to work with.
>
> I really do not know of ANY ISP that get /56 for real.
>
> I got my assignment in 2003 and the policy still haven't changed.
>
> Hope this help you some.
>
> Daniel.
>
>
> On 8/10/18 9:12 PM, Walt wrote:
>> On August 10, 2018 3:57 PM, Henry Bonath he...@thebonaths.com wrote:
>>
>>> Also could it be that you are using IPv6, not IPv4? (and your IPv6 is
>>> missing its gateway)
>>> If the IPv6 gateway is bad/missing you'll get that "no route to host"
>>> message.
>>
>> I've encountered that issue before, but it isn't that big a problem with me.
>> As an ISP, the /56 we have been allocated is too small to be very useful so
>> I'm holding back on working on it much until such time as we get at least a
>> /48 if not a /40. I'd like to be able to assign each customer a /56 but
>> would settle for a /60 for each. With a /60, I could only handle sixteen
>> customers. We have a number of customers for whom a /64 wouldn't cut it at
>> all.
>>
>> I never have figured out the proper way to configure rtadvd.conf. In
>> particular, there is an addr and an rtprefix.
>>
>> addr is, according to the man page, "The address filled into Prefix field"
>> while rtprefix is " The prefix filled into the Prefix field of route
>> information option". And then there are the proper prefix lengths -- do I
>> use 64 or 56? It seems like prefixlen must be 64, but rtplen doesn't seem to
>> make much difference.
>>
>> And then there is the kea side for prefix delegations.
>>
>> Since I can just put the IPv6 gateway into /etc/mygate, it's not a problem
>> from the OpenBSD machines and it will never be a big issue if I can't get a
>> properly sized allocation of addresses from AT&T.
>>
>> Walt
>>
>>
