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Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
From: Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:45:23 -0700
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:
On Thu 2015-Oct-01 18:28:52 -0700, Damian Menscher via NANOG < nanog () nanog org> wrote:On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 () leicester ac uk> wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with therestof the internet. it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but iguesswe're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).Would be really interesting to know how you would propose squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.I solved that problem a few years ago (well, kinda -- only for backend logging, not for routing): http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/net/InetAddresses.html#getCoercedIPv4Address(java.net.InetAddress)Squeezing 32 bits into 128 bits is easy. Let me know how you do with squeezing 128 bits into 32 bits...
I did just fine, thanks. (You may want to read the link again.... ;) Damian
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- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption, (continued)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Robin Johansson (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Israel G. Lugo (Oct 07)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Mark Andrews (Oct 07)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Ca By (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Jérôme Fleury (Oct 03)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Wolfgang S. Rupprecht (Oct 04)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Damian Menscher via NANOG (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Damian Menscher via NANOG (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Hugo Slabbert (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Ca By (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Matthew Kaufman (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Ca By (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Dovid Bender (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Todd Underwood (Oct 01)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Fred Baker (fred) (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption William Herrin (Oct 02)
- Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption Todd Underwood (Oct 02)