You should go directly to ARIN, get a proper ISP allocation the size you need and have your upstream route that.
Owen > On Dec 28, 2017, at 17:46, Michael Crapse <mich...@wi-fiber.io> wrote: > > As a small local ISP, our upstream isn't willing to give us more than a > /48, their statement "Here's a /48 that will give you unlimited addresses > that you'll never run out of". Therefore we give businesses /60s and > residentials /64. If only we could do as suggested here and give everyone a > /48, hah. It would be awesome if we could get an AS number but as we're not > multihomed, nor big enough to warrant ARIN paying us attention, we're at > the mercy of our upstream who also unwilling to part with more than a > single ipv4 /24 at a $300/mo surcharge, and forcing us into buying ipv4 > subnets that have been randomly blacklisted on sites such as HULU, netflix, > or others. > > I agree with the sentiment that we should have only 48 bits in the > networking portion as that does allow a 48bit mac to exist. mac collisions > happen so little, that it would make more sense for DAD to step in if it > does occur. Most hardware addresses are changeable anyway and should > probably be changed if on the same network. I am inexperienced enough to > not understand any necessary usefulness of a /64 network mask over a /80. > >> On 28 December 2017 at 18:34, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: >> >> >> :: Now think about scaling. >> >> Yes >> >> >> :: If the population doubles, we're now down to four spare /3s. >> :: If that doubled population doubles the number of devices, >> :: we're down to two spare /3s. If the population doubles >> :: again, there will be no civilization left, let alone an >> :: Internet. Etc. So realistically, the current address space >> :: allocation policies can handle a doubling of the planet's >> :: population, with each person having a quarter of a million >> :: addressable nodes. Each node having its own /64 to address >> :: individual endpoints within whatever that 'node' represents. >> >> Space: the final IP frontier >> These are the voyages of the range of IPv6 >> Its many-year mission: >> to explore strange new device implementations; >> to seek out new planet-covering nano-device applications and new ad-hoc >> networking technologies; >> to boldly go via DTN where no internet segment has gone before. >> <cue space-like music> >> >> >> :: Isn't this the utopia we've been seeking out? >> >> I like that one! :-) >> >> scott >>
