Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> I have not seen any talk about doing away with it, but the shortage of IP space
> would certainly apply pressure in that direction (reducing localhost to a /24 
> instead
> of a /8).
>    
That would break a lot of existing computers and devices.  The proper 
way out of the address shortage is IPv6.  I have my own IPv6 /56 subnet 
with an address space about 1 trillion times the entire IPv4 address 
space.  If only /48 subnets were handed out, as some propose, there's be 
enough addresses for about 35 trillion of them, each containing a 
trillion, trillion addresses and this is using only the 1/8 of the 
entire IPv6 address range that's currently allocated to unicast addresses.


--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx