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Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 04:09:47 EDT
> > When you have a large company, the company is also split
> over several
> > administrative sites, in some cases you might have a single
> > administrative group covering several sites though, this
> allows you to
> > provide them with a single /48 as they are one group they will know
> > how to properly divide that address space up.
>
> Works great, until you realize that for traffic engineering
> purposes, you really want to announce your Los Angeles site
> at an exchange near there, and your London site to be
> announced near there, and you end up wondering whether
> deaggregating the /48, or getting a second/third /48 would be
> wiser.. ;)
I believe that a separate /48 per site is better regardless of whether
or not the company has contracted with a single ISP for all sites, or
not. As far as I am concerned if there is a separate access circuit,
then it is a site and it deserves its own /48 assignment/allocation.
--Michael Dillon
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