On 6/24/2011 2:50 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:27:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/06/24 19:13 (GMT+0100) Stuart Tanner composed:
I wonder when will home routers switch to IP v6.
Never? How many unique IP's can anyone get onto one LAN inside a firewall/router?
With virtual interfaces, as many as they want. The real question is how many useful unique IP addresses can anyone set up on a home network.
Jim
one bezillion-bezillion Why do people continue to think in terms of "likely" and "enough" and "normally" etc? What's "enough" or "common" or "likely" today is only the result of factors that may change at any time. Everyone has seen this process happen many times already so it should be a known given. Once a capability exists, it gets used and then relied upon as a necessity, even if the use and the necessity didn't exist before. So consider, in this case, with container (and other virtualization) technology getting so much better and easier to use, many traditional applications are going start running inside their own containers just because they can and it doesn't cost anything (not even cpu cycles or ram or hardware access speed, let alone money) and it grants security and compartmentalization. So, what used to be one box with one IP running several services, becomes several virtual boxes each with their own ip. And one of the major points of ipv6 is no longer needing nat any more. But those are still small numbers. I can imagine, once unlimited IP's and nat-less routing exist, forget having an IP per physical box, even including all those ip-connected doorknobs that don't exist yet, forget having an ip per virtual box, those are still smallish numbers even if we had all ip-connected light switches and smoke alarms and each of those had 5 or 10 virtual servers in it for the web server and other services it provides, How about an IP per individual process? how about _many_ ip's per _process_ used for all kinds of weird new IPC, _real_ cloud computing. It's only crazy because it doesn't exist right now. There is only no use for it because it doesn't exist right now. This kind of projection should be the default expectation by now. So assumed as to be beneath comment. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org