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Re: IPv6 daydreams
From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:11:29 -0700
On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Paul Jakma wrote:
Wrong issue. What I'm unhappy about is not the size of the address - you'll notice that I didn't say "make the whole address space smaller." What I'm unhappy about is the exceedingly sparse allocation policiesYou can allocate to 100% density on the network identifier if you want, right down to /64.
I believe the complaint isn't about what _can be_ done, rather what _is being_ done.
The host identifier simply is indivisible, and just happens to be 64bit.
I've always wondered why they made a single "address" field if the IPv6 architects really wanted a hard separation between the host identifier and the network identifer. Making the "address" a contiguous set of bits seems to imply that the components of the "address" can be variable length.
Rgds, -drc
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- Re: IPv6 daydreams Kevin Loch (Oct 17)
- Re: IPv6 daydreams David Barak (Oct 17)
- Re: IPv6 daydreams Jeroen Massar (Oct 17)
- Re: IPv6 daydreams Paul Jakma (Oct 17)
- Re: IPv6 daydreams David Conrad (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 daydreams David Barak (Oct 19)
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