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Re: IPv6 and CDN's


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:09:52 +0200



On 11/28/21 15:59, Masataka Ohta wrote:

It merely means you should not use MAC address based IP addresses for,
at least, routers, which is partly why opex of IPv4 is low.

I often wonder what Internet you use :-)...


More space, only to encourage stupid idea of MAC address based
addresses of IPv6/ND, is not required for systematic numbering.

I'm sure a router won't stop working because we did not assign it an IP address "systematically". Nor will the spinning of the earth.

Mark.


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