Subj : A small questionary on ISPs
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Victor Sudakov
Date : Mon Oct 25 2021 23:09:20

Dear Michiel,

25 Oct 21 13:44, you wrote to Scott Street:

 SS>> The gateway and my dozen+ devices do not seem to have any issues
 SS>> getting dynamic IPv6 addresses, and since most are Apple, IPv6 is
 SS>> the prefered connection method.  As an "end-user", I don't know
 SS>> why Comcast has chosen to give my network MORE address space;
 SS>> like 1800000000000000000+ addresses wasn't enough; they've given
 SS>> me 295000000000000000000+ addresses.

 MV> Actually compared to other ISP they are a bit miserly. They only give
 MV> you a /60. My ISP gives me a /56 and many others issue a /48.

A /60 means 16 /64 nets which should be sufficient for a home user (main network, guest network, IoT network, kids' network, what else can you imagine?). But configuring a single lan with a /60 prefixlen (instead of splitting the block into 16 standard nets) makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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