[101215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Dec 23 13:54:36 2007
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:46:26 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200712211448.lBLEmZlR072985@aurora.sol.net> (Joe Greco's message
of "Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:48:35 -0600 (CST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Joe Greco:
>> Right now, we might say "wow, 256 subnets for a single end-user...
>> hogwash!" and in years to come, "wow, only 256 subnets... what were we
>> thinking!?"
>
> Well, what's the likelihood of the "only 256 subnets" problem?
There's a tendency to move away from (simulated) shared media networks.
"One host per subnet" might become the norm.
