[116786] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 Addressing Help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Mon Aug 17 23:08:54 2009
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:08:07 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Ray Burkholder <ray@oneunified.net>
In-Reply-To: <077301ca1f9d$5d6d9670$1848c350$@net>
Cc: 'Nanog' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Ray Burkholder wrote:
> Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to
> contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery
> crap that 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 consequence of such containment.
Don't confuse the reasons for creating subnets with the rationale for
determining their size. In IPv6 we really do NOT want to be overly
concerned about how many hosts a subnet can contain.
Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
