[131380] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv4 sunset date revised : 2009-02-05
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Oct 22 15:28:44 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:20:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20101022175403.GA11762@vacation.karoshi.com.>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
>=20
>
> ah... but the trick is to only need enough IPv4 in the pool
> to dynamically talk to the Internet. Native v6 to Native v6
> never has to drop back to the Internet, It uses native v6
> paths. So the larger the v6 uptake, the fewer Internet addreses
> you'll need to keep around in your pool.
Ok, it wasn't clear in the docs that it was a dynamic translation from
v6 to a smaller pool of v4 IPs, it implied it was a direct translation.
G
