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minimum IPv6 announcement size
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:29:17PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 9/26/2013 1:52 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
>
> The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space
> exhaustion. IPv4's address space was too small for such large thinking.
> IPv6 is far beyond enough to use such allocation policies.
when concevied, IPv4 was unimaginably large ... /8's were
handed out to networks with fewer than 10 devices. Hindsight
is 20/20.
"those who ignore teh past are doomed to repeat it"
/bill