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Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
From: "Israel G. Lugo" <israel.lugo () lugosys com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:58:08 +0100
On 10/03/2015 08:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
So a /48 isn’t about being able to support 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 devices in every home, it’s about being able to have 16 bits of subnet mask to use in delegating addresses in a dynamic plug-and-play hierarchical topology that can evolve on demand without user configuration or intervention.
Which is IMO scarcely enough to be as flexible as IPv6 is being touted. I've always considered 16 bits of subnetting way too small for an end site. Especially if you want to do things like dynamic plug-and-play hierarchical topology. Just following Robin Johansson's example in another email: On 10/02/2015 07:08 PM, Robin Johansson wrote:
If a /48 is assigned to each customer, then the first wireless router gets a /52, second router a /56 and there is room to connect one more level of devices. All works out of the box, everyone is happy, no support calls.
We only have up to 3 levels, and each level only supports 16 branches. May be fine for mom and dad now, but certainly not for other complex cases. And when you start factoring the whole "soup cans with IPv6" thing... I still think IPv6 should've been at least 192 bits long. Israel G. Lugo
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- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption, (continued)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Cryptographrix (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption George, Wes (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Cryptographrix (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption George, Wes (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Stephen Satchell (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Mark Andrews (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Brett A Mansfield (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Robin Johansson (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Israel G. Lugo (Oct 07)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Mark Andrews (Oct 07)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Ca By (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Jérôme Fleury (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Wolfgang S. Rupprecht (Oct 04)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Damian Menscher via NANOG (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Damian Menscher via NANOG (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 02)