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<tt>Ok so what my initial comment about /128's at customers wan
interfaces (or directly to their pc's) a good assumption?<br>
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-=Kreg<br>
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Jay Hennigan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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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