[118699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Ollie)
Tue Oct 27 10:22:17 2009
In-Reply-To: <877585b00910270705i2b3e8324ifc0046c849b960b0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:20:52 -0500
From: Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Michael Dillon
<wavetossed@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> But, when IPv6 is a bit more common, there is no need for =C2=A0virtual
> hosters to share
> a single IP address between several sites. They may as well use a
> unique IPv6 address
> for every single site, even if they are all on the same server. The
> side effect of this is
> that it makes the network operator's tool sharper, and able to knock
> down single sites
> with a /32 ACL.
>
> For a hosting provider, I would think that this strengthens the
> business case for IPv6.
But do the commonly-used operating systems support adding hundreds or
thousands of addresses to an interface, and what would the performance
implications be?
--=20
Jeff Ollie
