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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

  • From: Florian Weimer
  • Date: Sun Dec 23 13:52:56 2007 
* Joe Greco:

>> Right now, we might say "wow, 256 subnets for a single end-user... 
>> hogwash!" and in years to come, "wow, only 256 subnets... what were we 
>> thinking!?"
>
> Well, what's the likelihood of the "only 256 subnets" problem?

There's a tendency to move away from (simulated) shared media networks.
"One host per subnet" might become the norm.