[156418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Sep 17 23:23:26 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5057B52F.6070603@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:19:23 -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 Sep 17, 2012, at 16:41 , Masataka Ohta =
<mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> John Mitchell wrote:
>=20
>> I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is...
>=20
> They don't. Instead, they suffer from it.
>=20
I find it quite useful, actually. I would not say I suffer from it at =
all.
>> Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or=20
>> 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)
>=20
> That is one of a major design flaw of IPv6 as a result of failed
> attempt to have SLAAC, which resulted in so stateful and time
> wasting mechanism.
>=20
> As it is virtually impossible to remember IPv6 addresses, IPv6
> operation is a lot harder than necessary.
>=20
> Masataka Ohta
>=20
Hmmm... I find SLAAC quite useful so I'm not sure why you would call it =
time-wasting.
I also have no more difficulty remembering IPv6 addresses in general =
than I had with IPv4. I can generally remember the prefixes I care about =
and the suffixes unless machine-generated are almost always easier to =
remember in IPv6 because there are enough bits to make them usefully =
meaningful instead of dense-packed meaningless numbers.
YMMV.
Owen
