Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Nathan Ward
On 15/08/2009, at 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to recommend it. The basic problem we ran in to was that there weren't enough B's for everyone who needed more than a C and there weren't enough A's period. So we started handing out gr

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 00:38 -0400, William Herrin wrote: > With IPv6 we have more than enough addresses to give a /56 to > everybody who needs more than a /60 and a /48 to everybody who needs > more than a /56. I don't think this is a good assumption to make. Just because the namespace keyle

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> I'm going to contradict you there. Classful addressing had a lot to >> recommend it. The basic problem we ran in to was that there weren't >> enough B's for everyone who needed more than a C and there weren't >> enough A's period. So we started

Re: TransAtlantic 40 Gig Waves

2009-08-15 Thread Jay Ess
In November 24th 2008 Sunet together with Telia and Sprint reached 40Gb on one wavelength using TAT-14. The total length for the project was 9600 kilometers (the length of Sweden plus TAT-14). The Swedish article can be found here http://techworld.idg.se/2.2524/1.215856/sunet-forst-med-40-gigabi

Re: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-15 Thread Leen Besselink
Keith Medcalf wrote: >> ... Dont know what web 2.0 is but the new portal is a web based >> object management system complete >> with "recommended" changes and inconsistency lists. >> We just added prefix allocation check with backend information >> from PCH (prefix checker tool). > > Web 2.0 is m

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Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Jon Lewis wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, David Freedman wrote: > > > Will keep it simple, this is what I (and I suspect many others) do > > > > /128 - Loopback (what else?) > > /126 - Router p2p > > /112 - Router LAN shared segments (p2mp) > > Why even go

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
> Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing > issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or > having an "address configuration server" attached to the segment to > manage addresses) when dealing with Ethernet in the last 27 years or > so? Why is

Re: IPv6 Addressing Help

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0900 Randy Bush wrote: > > Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing > > issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or > > having an "address configuration server" attached to the segment to > > manage addresses)