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Linode has a /30: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2600-3C00-1 http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2600-3C00-1

• sp332 15y ago
  That's equivalent to 4 /32 subnets, or 2^34 = 17,179,869,184 /64 subnets. I think they could afford to give each customer a /64. IPv6 subnets don't really get smaller than /64. The way the routing is configured, the first 64 bits are "network address" and the last 64 bits are the "interface address". One /64 subnet has 2^64 addresses, about 18.4 quintillion.
  • bdonlan 15y ago
    Sure, but remember each /64 takes up space in their router's routing table. Assigning every linode a /64 would take up quite a lot of memory, then.
    • danellis 15y ago
      What you're saying implies that they have a single routing entry for all their /128s currently, otherwise that would be the same number of routing entries. So, why can't they just have a single routing entry that aggregates all the /64s?