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That's when you do DHCP-PD and the router (last hop before your server) sets up a route for that entire /48 to the link-local address of your server. Or you se
by X-Istence 11y ago
That's when you do DHCP-PD and the router (last hop before your server) sets up a route for that entire /48 to the link-local address of your server.
Or you set up a static route (as a provider this would be recommended) or let the edge do a BGP announcement of it's address space.
- simoncion 11y agoWhy do either of these solve the problem mentioned, and why would you allocate a /48 to a single server?
- simoncion 11y agoWait, when you said "...the router (last hop before your server) sets up a route for that entire /48 to the link-local address of your server." Was "your server" the ISP's server, or the customer's server? If the former, why are you saying "server", rather than "router"?
- X-Istence 11y agoIt's the customers server. If they need a /48 of address space, you just want to route all of it to them.