Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:56 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > I think that it will not be long
> > before the internet is an IPv6 ocean with islands of IPv4
>
> My company made up some t-shirts for a conference last year. We
> brainstormed the texts. I ended up with a sort of haiku:
>
>    out of the puddle
>       into the ocean
>          IPv6
>
> Sadly I realised too late that it should have had a footnote: "not to
> scale" :-)

True.

If you want to compare masses, IPv4 = 7 liters of water.
IPv6 = EARTH, including all rocks, trees, oceans, lakes, puddles,
        etc.

Put another way, if subnets (IPv4 /24s, IPv6 /64s) were
Almond M&Ms, IPv4 would cover approximately 70 yards
of a regulation American Football field in a single layer of
M&Ms.

IPv6 would fill the great lakes. All of the great lakes.
To the rim.

In terms of host addresses per subnet, IPv4 gives you
a large bag of M&Ms. IPv6 gives you the great lakes
full of M&Ms. All of the great lakes. To the rim.

Owen

Disclaimer: Do not attempt to eat a /64 worth of any form of M&Ms
as adverse health results are likely.