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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:46:26 +0100 Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * 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. Or possibly maybe Peter M. Gleitz's and Steven M. Bellovin's idea of "Transient Addressing for Related Processes: Improved Firewalling by Using IPV6 and Multiple Addresses per Host" http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/tarp/tarp.html A /64 per host is probably not necessary, however if an end-site has a /48, that's 65K hosts so it wouldn't likely be much of a problem for most sites ... certainly not my house currently or in the forseeable future or my current employer, or most employers I've worked for in the past. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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