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Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks
From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:01 +1030
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:41:46 -0500 Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:
Jeroen Massar wrote:But yes, the network stack itself is a different question, then again, you can just route a /64 into the loopback device and let your apache listen there... (which also allows you to do easy-failover as you can move that complete /64 to a different box ;)You are still comparing an application level decision to a stack level decision. Thousands of addresses on a stack could definitely pose an issue depending on the OS.
Depends a bit on how the OS handles interface address assignments. Linux creates host routes in a separate 'local' route table, which you can see via ip route show table local or for IPv6 ip -6 route show table local which I think would suggest that Linux's interface address assignment scalability is as scalable as it's route table scalability. Performing concurrent IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection on that many addresses when the interface/host comes up might be an issue. Regards, Mark.
Current thread:
- IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Michael Dillon (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Jeroen Massar (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Jeffrey Ollie (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Jeroen Massar (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Adrian Chadd (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Jack Bates (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Mark Smith (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Jeroen Massar (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Ray Soucy (Oct 27)
- RE: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Brian Johnson (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Joel Jaeggli (Oct 27)
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks Chris Adams (Oct 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks William Pitcock (Oct 27)