On 6/24/2011 4:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/06/24 15:59 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
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?
My IPv6 subnet has 2^72 addresses. That's about a trillion times the entire IPv4 address space. That subnet is composed of 256 subnets, each with 2^64 addresses. In IPv6, you're supposed to get, at a minimum, a /64 subnet from the ISP.
Gee. Number bigger than I can write, much less remember. Exactly how does that make the job of a LAN admin who knows how it works now easier or more reliable?
Unambiguous identification is always better. The size of the number is completely, ridiculously, inconsequential. Saying the possible address space is too big is exactly as idiotic as saying the number of possible numbers in math is too big. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org