Subject: Re: [vserver] Re: Linux source address selection vs. EUI-64
From: Romain Riviere <romain.riviere@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:42:38 +0100

 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:42:38 +0100
Le 13 nov. 2010 à 23:40, Ed W a écrit :

> On 13/11/2010 15:42, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> 
>>> For individual hosts (esp. in a VPS environment), assigning a /64 or
>>> larger makes little sense to me, a /96 is more than enough.
>> Is that an official recommendation? I currently have a single /56,
>> which I would like to distribute over several thousands customers,
>> each on a virtual server, with currently one static IPv4 address.
> 
> I can see IPV6 turning into another IPv4 style farce due to those in the know handing
out very large allocations.  The logic seems to be that routers today can handle at
most something like /24 routing, so allocate large sub allocations to avoid routing
problems exploding... Seems like the wrong design decision though..?
> 
> Who knows, a /56 is a BIG space, yet if we start handing out /56 space to light switches
then perhaps we are back at square one?