[130953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Oct 18 14:35:15 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:30:28 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101018181904.GE28093@nudo.bsws.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/18/2010 11:19, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> [2010-10-18 18:29]:
>> The good news is that stateful inspection doesn't go away in IPv6.
>
> that is right.
>
>> It works just fine. All that goes away is the header mangling.
>
> that is partially true. it can work just fine, but all the bloat in v6
> makes it way harder to implement the state tracking than it should be.
>
What bloat? Larger address space?
~Seth
