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IIRC /64s are ideally meant to address to individual subnets (the bottom 64 bits aren't intended for routing) so it's only really 64k addresses in the conventional sense.

/48 is actually a relatively standard allocation even for home connections, although /56 is more common.




I think what Rogers in Canada does is reasonable. They issue a /64 by default and a /56 if you set an assignment hint.


This was key to me understanding IPv6 - you don't really do variable length subnets. You just get a /48 and break that up into /64's. Because the space is so vast, you can do inefficient things with no chance of running into allocation issues like v4 and you don't have to mentally try and subnet a 128 bit address which maybe some can handle but hurts my head.




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