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Re: quietly....
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:13:35 -0500
On 2011-02-03, at 18:37, Paul Graydon wrote:
On 02/02/2011 06:31 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:I, personally, have been waiting to hear what happens when network techs discover that they can't carry IP addresses around in their heads anymore. That sounds trivial, perhaps, but I don't think it will be.Absolutely, it's certainly one thing I'm dreading.
I'm not sure this is the nightmare people think it will be. In my (admittedly fairly small-scale) experience with operating v6 on real networks, being able to figure out a prefix from a schema such as ARIN:ARIN:SITE:VLAN::/64 makes things a lot easier. Having to remember ...::1, or ...::2, or ...:3 for the statically-numbered routers on the VLAN doesn't exactly make things much harder. Mix in some special cases (e.g. VLAN=0 for loopbacks) and you have a recipe that's pretty trivial to remember. [This is how Stephen Stuart and Paul Vixie set things up within 2001:4f8::/32 back when I was chasing packets at ISC, and I've followed the model ever since.] It's easier to figure out 2607:f2c0:1::1 in these terms than it is to remember 206.248.155.244. For me, at least :-) I appreciate the full mess of EUI-64 for devices using autoconf requires cut and paste, but that's why you hard-wire the host bits for things you refer to frequently. Joe
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- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 05)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Cameron Byrne (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Randy Bush (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 02)
- RE: quietly.... Frank Bulk (Feb 13)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Paul Graydon (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Joe Abley (Feb 06)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 06)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Justin M. Streiner (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Paul Graydon (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Majdi S. Abbas (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Martin Millnert (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Paul Graydon (Feb 01)