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RE: IPv6 Addressing Help
From: Antonio Querubin <tony () lava net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:07 -1000 (HST)
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Ray Burkholder wrote:
Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery crap that exists on any given segment? And if we have to segment in such a fashion, the request and allocation of additional resources is a natural consequence of such containment.
Don't confuse the reasons for creating subnets with the rationale for determining their size. In IPv6 we really do NOT want to be overly concerned about how many hosts a subnet can contain.
Antonio Querubin 808-545-5282 x3003 e-mail/xmpp: tony () lava net
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jeroen Massar (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help trejrco (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Joe Maimon (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Joel Jaeggli (Aug 17)
- RE: IPv6 Addressing Help Ray Burkholder (Aug 17)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Mark Andrews (Aug 17)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Steve Bertrand (Aug 17)
- RE: IPv6 Addressing Help Antonio Querubin (Aug 17)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jeroen Massar (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Randy Bush (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Nathan Ward (Aug 15)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help William Herrin (Aug 15)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Nathan Ward (Aug 19)
- Re: IPv6 Addressing Help Jack Bates (Aug 19)