----- On Jul 9, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote:
> Huh, since when does ANY application care about what size address allocation > you > have? A V6 address is a 128 bit address period. Any IPv6 aware application > will handle addresses as a 128 bit variable. The DHCPv6-PD server application on your router(s) might care. > Does any application running on IPv4 care if you have a /28 or a /29? In fact > the application should not even be aware of what the net mask is because that > is an OS function to handle the IP stack. This argument makes no sense at all > since every application will be able to handle any allocation size since it is > not even aware what that is. Any IPv6 compatible OS will not care either > because they would be able to handle any number of masked bits. No app > developer has ever been tied into the size of a subnet since CIDR was > invented. For an application that doesn't do anything with IP addresses (allocating, etc.), it shouldn't matter, but that does not mean that there aren't applications for which it does. -Randy
