Re: IPv6

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:37:01AM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> SS> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:22:38 -0500
> SS> From: Stephen Sprunk
>
>
> SS> When a 30Mpps IPv4 box falls back to <200kpps for IPv6, I
> SS> don't think "not completely functional" is an adequate
> SS> description.  To me, that falls into the "not supported"
> SS> category.
>
> Okay, I'll make a fool of myself on-list -- certainly not the
> first time. ;-)
>
> Why not use the highest-order 32 bits of an IPv6 address for
> interdomain routing... i.e., "overlay" them on IPv4 addresses
> and/or a 32-bit ASN?  Yes, it smells of classful routing.  Call
> me shortsighted, but how many billion interdomain routing
> policies do we really need?
>
> Probably OT, but seems semi-fitting for the thread.

The whole 64 bits reserved for a link layer address thing seems silly, why 
don't we just put some payload in there and make the packets a fixed 
size... :)

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