[116782] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 Addressing Help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Burkholder)
Mon Aug 17 20:47:35 2009
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From: "Ray Burkholder" <ray@oneunified.net>
To: "'Joel Jaeggli'" <joelja@bogus.com>,
"'William Herrin'" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:46:45 -0300
Cc: 'Nanog' <nanog@nanog.org>
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>=20
> Why is is necessary insist that using bits in a fashion that doesn't
> require that growth be predicated on requests for additional resources
> be considered wasteful?
>=20
Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to con=
tain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery crap tha=
t exists on any given segment? And if we have to segment in such a fashion=
, the request and allocation of additional resources is a natural consequen=
ce of such containment.
--=20
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