[154025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 21 09:52:19 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FE30DDD.3030103@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:47:29 -0700
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 21, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> Karl Auer wrote:
>
>> Speaking for myself, I'm one of the "if I want to allow direct outside
>> connection to my interior machines I should be able to" crowd.
>
> While "direct" and "interior" are not compatible that you actually
> mean some indirections...
>
> Anyway, what if, your ISP assigns a globally unique IPv4 address
> to your home router (a NAT box) which is UPnP capable?
>
> That's what the largest retail ISP in Japan is doing.
>
> Masataka Ohta
Does not scale. Not enough IPv4 addresses to do that for 6.8 billion people
on the planet.
What if my ISP just routes my /48? Seems to work quite well, actually.
Owen
