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Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:55:36 -0400
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:49:17 -0400, Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au> wrote:
You, we, all of us have to stop using the present to limit the future. What IS should not be used to define what SHOULD BE. What people NOW HAVE in their homes should not be used to dictate to them what they CAN HAVE in their homes, which is what you do when you provide them only with non-globally-routable address space (IPv4 NAT), or too few subnets (IPv6 /56) to name just two examples.
Talking about IPv6, we aren't carving a limit in granite. 99.99999% of home networks currently have no need for multiple networks, and thus, don't ask for anything more; they get a single /64 prefix. If tomorrow they need more, set the hint to 60 and they get a /60. Need more, ask for 56... CURRENTLY, providers have their DHCP server(s) set to a limit of 56. But that's simply a number in a config file; it can be changed as easily as it was set the first time. (source pool size and other infrastructure aside.) It's just like the escalation of speeds: as the need for it rises, it becomes available. (in general, at least)
Current thread:
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion, (continued)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Ricky Beam (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 08)
- Re: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion tqr2813d376cjozqap1l (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Paul Ferguson (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Dave Taht (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mel Beckman (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Ricky Beam (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mark Andrews (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Baldur Norddahl (Jul 08)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Tony Finch (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Harald Koch (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Marco Teixeira (Jul 09)
- RE: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Matthew Huff (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Harald Koch (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Dave Taht (Jul 09)