back in the good o'l days when we would hand out 24 bits for the number of hosts in a network. It was too many bits then and is too many bits now.... a /64 is just overkill.
/bill On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:11:39PM -0400, Ryan McIntosh wrote: > I'd love to be able to turn the microwave and oven on with my phone.. > maybe ten years from now lol.. > > In all seriousness though (and after skimming some of the other > responses), I absolutely understand the ideals and needs amongst > conserving memory on our routers for the sake of the future of bgp and > internal routing. The problem I described has nothing to do with that > however, I was mearly pointing out the fact that the basis of the > larger allocations are based upon the fact we're handing over /64's to > each vlan/point to point/lan/etc that we're turning up. In practice, I > understand, a /64 means that 64 bits can handle a unique ip for every > host without having to worry about numbering them, but how many hosts > do we truly think will be sitting on one network? Surely not a /64's > worth, that alone would cause havoc on a neighbor table's maximum > memory limit. Maybe I'm missing the connection here, but I still don't > see how a /64 is justified for each individual user/host/server/etc > sitting on the edge of the internet that's getting ip's from an > upstream provider (not arin/ripe/etc). > > It's those smaller blocks that justify handing over larger ones, which > I do understand there's plenty of, but how long are we going to patch > the same problem and not try to fix it right? > > Ryan > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Larry Sheldon <larryshel...@cox.net> wrote: > > On 9/27/2013 1:10 AM, Ryan McIntosh wrote: > >> > >> I don't respond to many of these threads but I have to say I've > >> contested this one too only to have to beaten into my head that a /64 > >> is "appropriate".. it still hasn't stuck, but unfortunately rfc's for > >> other protocols depend on the blocks to now be a /64.. > >> > >> It's a waste, even if we're "planning for the future", no one house > >> needs a /64 sitting on their lan.. or at least none I can sensibly > >> think of o_O. > > > > > > > > Are you accounting for connections to your refrigerator, water heater, > > razor, vibrator, and on down to list so the gubermint can tell they when you > > can use power for them? > > > > -- > > Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics > > of System Administrators: > > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to > > learn from their mistakes. > > (Adapted from Stephen Pinker) > >
