On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:40:23AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <49fb4661.8090...@west.net>, Jay Hennigan writes: > > LEdouard Louis wrote: > > > Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address. > > > > > > Where can I buy a block of Internet IP address for Business? How much > > > does it cost? > > > > Only five? Really? Our basic residential users get 18 quintillion > > addresses, and business users get 65536 times that many. Tell them you > > need a few more. :-) > > Actually residential users do. One /64 is not enough. On > can argue about whether a /56 or a /48 is appropriate for > residential users but a single /64 isn't and residential > ISP's should be planning to hand out more than a single /64 > to their customers.
How many home users (or even small businesses) have more than one subnet at the moment (behind NAT, presumably)? As a percentage of subscribers, what does that equate to? Handing out an IPv6 /56 to a DSL or cable customer should be handled much the same way as giving them an IPv4 /29 is today -- ask, and it shall be provided, but it's wasteful[1] to do so by default. - Matt [1] Just because we've got a lot of it, doesn't mean we should be pissing it up against the wall unnecessarily. A motto for network engineers and economists alike. -- [M]ost of the other people here [...] drive cars that they have personally built (starting with iron ore, charcoal, and a Malaysian turn-signal tree) [...] but I wimp out on all of those points. Sometimes there are advantages to paying somebody else to do it for you. -- Matt Roberds, in the Monastery
