Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm unsure what IPv6 has to do with this - it seems to make the task > of scaling routing about the same as it is in IPv4 - there appears to > be no intrinsic property of the protocol that alters the situation to > any appreciable extent.
There is a school of thought that seems to believe that IPv6 is a failure because it only solves a quite narrow although extremely important problem -- specifically address space exhaustion. The fact that it does not solve the global routing table meltdown is, according to such people, an obvious failure of v6 -- never mind that they are unrelated issues. As you note, there is no distinction between solving the global routing problem in a v4 or v6 context. The same algorithms can be used for either. If new algorithms are developed, they can be deployed for either. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
