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Re: IPv6 Addressing Help
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:43:27 +0700
On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Chris Gotstein wrote:
I'm just not able to wrap my brain around the subnetting that needs to be done on the router.
One of the things which has struck me as being fairly insane about current recommended 'best practices' for IPv6 addressing is the practice of wasting huge blocks of addresses on p2p links; even given the gigantic address space, in a world in which every soda-can, every window-blind, and swarms of medical nanobots injected into one's bloodstream will potentially become spimes, this just seems grossly short-sighted.
The other, more immediately worrisome aspect of this practice is that it seems that we're essentially turning routers into sinkholes by doing this, with all the negative consequences this implies.
Comments/clue greatly appreciated on this and related aspects . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well. -- Kevin Lawton
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- IPv6 Addressing Help Chris Gotstein (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jeroen Massar (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Thomas Mangin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Chris Gotstein (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Roland Dobbins (Aug 14)
- RE: IPv6 Addressing Help TJ (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jeroen Massar (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Thomas Mangin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help David Freedman (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Owen DeLong (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Randy Bush (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Larry Blunk (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jeroen Massar (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Randy Bush (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jon Lewis (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help David Freedman (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Mark Smith (Aug 15)