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Re: NIST IPv6 document
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:25:24 -0800
Is there any reason we really need to care what size other people use for their Point to Point links? Personally, I think /64 works just fine. I won't criticize anyone for using it. It's what I choose to use. However, if someone else wants to keep track of /112s, /120s, /124s, /126s, or even /127s on their own network, so be it. The protocol allows for all of that. If vendors build stuff that depends on /64, that stuff is technically broken and it's between the network operator and the vendor to get it resolved. Owen On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:please explain why this is in any way better than operating the same LAN with a subnet similar in size to its existing IPv4 subnets, e.g. a /120.Using /64s is insane because a) it's unnecessarily wasteful (no lectures on how large the space is, I know, and reject that argument out of hand) and b) it turns the routers/switches into sinkholes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
Current thread:
- NIST IPv6 document Kevin Oberman (Jan 04)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 04)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mohacsi Janos (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Dobbins, Roland (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jack Bates (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jack Bates (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mohacsi Janos (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 06)
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- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 04)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mark Smith (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Dobbins, Roland (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mark Smith (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mark Smith (Jan 08)