[arin-discuss] IPv6 End User Assignments

[Jay Hennigan]

> It is "just" a /48 assignment, but it is routed through a /128, as  
> opposed to bridged to the customer.  If the traffic was bridged, there  
> certainly wouldn't be a whole lot of subnetting happening at the  
> residential level because Layer-3 switches aren't very affordable.

That's what link-local is for.  The /48 (or /56) isn't bridged.  It's 
connected automagically via link-local addresses between the ISP edge 
and the CPE.

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