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Re: IPv6 Ignorance
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:19:23 -0700
On Sep 17, 2012, at 16:41 , Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
John Mitchell wrote:I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is...They don't. Instead, they suffer from it.
I find it quite useful, actually. I would not say I suffer from it at all.
Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)That is one of a major design flaw of IPv6 as a result of failed attempt to have SLAAC, which resulted in so stateful and time wasting mechanism. As it is virtually impossible to remember IPv6 addresses, IPv6 operation is a lot harder than necessary. Masataka Ohta
Hmmm... I find SLAAC quite useful so I'm not sure why you would call it time-wasting. I also have no more difficulty remembering IPv6 addresses in general than I had with IPv4. I can generally remember the prefixes I care about and the suffixes unless machine-generated are almost always easier to remember in IPv6 because there are enough bits to make them usefully meaningful instead of dense-packed meaningless numbers. YMMV. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Jason Baugher (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Cutler James R (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Jason Baugher (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Eugen Leitl (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Joe Hamelin (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Cutler James R (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 18)
- RE: IPv6 Ignorance Beeman, Davis (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Masataka Ohta (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Masataka Ohta (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance joseph . snyder (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance William Herrin (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance William Herrin (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Mark Andrews (Sep 18)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 18)