27 Oct
2009
27 Oct
'09
10:13 a.m.
Michael Dillon wrote: [..]
[..] The side effect of this is that it makes the network operator's tool sharper, and able to knock down single sites with a /32 ACL.
You actually mean a /128 in the case of IPv6, the /32 would be the complete ISP...
For a hosting provider, I would think that this strengthens the business case for IPv6.
and they can just use a single /64 for a single 'virtual webhost', then assign a 32 bit customer-id and have every customer have 2^32 sites, bingo. Greets, Jeroen