2^128 IP addresses should be enough for anybody, eh? On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:54:40PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Let me give you a hint: IPv4 will run out this year. So what ever you do, you better get prepared for that.
Right. And future generations wont thank us if the same lackadaisical policy enforcement means large swathes of v6 space get glommed on, and we repeat this conversation a couple of decades later.
Please apply basic math 101 here. There's 4 billion times the amount of *networks* in IPv6 than the amount of single IP addresses in IPv4.
Normal LIRs in IPv6 get a /32 - so to "glomm" (whatever that means) "large swathes", to have a significant impact on the 4 billion /32s out there (maybe only 500 million if you only count FP001), they will have to come back *fairly* often for new /32s.
Size does matter.
Gert Doering -- did you enable IPv6 on something today...?
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