[121986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ip address management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Wed Feb 3 10:16:09 2010
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:15:30 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B698B0F.9080603@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nick Hilliard (nick) writes:
>
> There is a FAQ entry for ipv6 support in ipplan:
>
> > One feature request that comes up from time to time is IPv6. Adding IPv6
> > support will require major effort but has such a limited audience.
> > Ironically the only people that ever requested IPv6 support are either
> > from Telcos, ISP?s or government departments, yet they are never
> > interested in contributing resources! I deam them parasites of the Open
> > Source world - leaching off the good will and effort of the Open Source
> > community, yet give nothing in return.
Shame. And "deam" is "deem".
> q.v. http://iptrack.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=faq
>
> I guess we're all entitled to our opinions.
Yeah, sad.
> The data model used in ipplan is to enumerate all IP addresses in the
> working ranges. This works fine for ipv4, but obviously breaks horribly
> for ipv6. Political considerations aside, I suspect that this is at least
> some of the reason that ipplan doesn't support it.
It would indeed require a very large screen and lots of memory :)
Cheers,
Phil
