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Re: IPv6 Address Planning

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Aug 10 12:55:05 2005

In-Reply-To: <20050810164849.GE18662@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:54:10 +0200
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 10-aug-2005, at 18:48, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

>> This creates the situation where people try to
>> make do with a /56, find out that they need a /48 after all (all
>> those /64 ptps...) and have to renumber.

>     ah... so is there the admission that renumbering in IPv6
>     is pretty much a myth?

Renumbering hosts in IPv6 is a breeze. You just change some settings  
in the routers and the rest happens automatically.

It's more renumbering information in the DNS and filters and such  
that's a problem, regardless of IP version.

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