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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff
That's an education problem. There's no security gain from not having realIn fact, and call me crazy, but I can't help but wonder how many enterprises IPs on machines. Any belief that there is results from a lack of understanding. Nope.Anyone got any numbers for that? I'm happy to admit I don't. :) Site-Local sort of provided that, but, as pointed out, dead. ULA-random sort of provides it, except that ULA-random only provides likely uniqueness and so really is the worst of both problems. There's not enough guarantee of collision to really prevent it from getting routed, and, there's not enough of a guarantee of uniqueness to make organizations worried about such things comfortable with it. ULA-C is just Provider-Independent Real addresses with a label stuck on them that says "These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along". Really, the only thing that distinguishes ULA-C from PI is mindset and router configuration. The former is known to vary in unpredictable manners. The latter is known to vary with the application of $$$. Yep. Hence the v6 concept of real addresses everywhere. People seem toHowever widespread use of private address space in ipv4 costs people huge amounts of money when you have to merge the business processes of two or more large enterprise networks. have forgotten that private addresses and NAT were a hack designed to cope with a situation that v6 is supposed to actually solve. I admit v6 does not completely solve the problem (at least not yet), but, it solves enough of it that we shouldn't be clinging to the v4 hacks that got us by as we move to v6. Owen Attachment:
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