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@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org