Le 13 nov. 2010 à 23:40, Ed W a écrit :
> On 13/11/2010 15:42, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>
>>> For individual hosts (esp. in a VPS environment), assigning a /64 or
>>> larger makes little sense to me, a /96 is more than enough.
>> Is that an official recommendation? I currently have a single /56,
>> which I would like to distribute over several thousands customers,
>> each on a virtual server, with currently one static IPv4 address.
>
> I can see IPV6 turning into another IPv4 style farce due to those in the know handing out very large allocations. The logic seems to be that routers today can handle at most something like /24 routing, so allocate large sub allocations to avoid routing problems exploding... Seems like the wrong design decision though..?
>
> Who knows, a /56 is a BIG space, yet if we start handing out /56 space to light switches then perhaps we are back at square one?
Except that there are 2^56 /56 prefixes, roughly 10 million times the world population. I don't see exhaustion looming over the 35-year horizon just quite yet :)
Received on Sat Nov 13 23:43:27 2010