On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:25:40 +0900, Randy Bush said:
Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repeat all the old mistakes with. Not quite.. 2^96 = 79228162514264337593543950336 2^128-2^32 = 340282366920938463463374607427473244160
not quite. let's posit 42 devices on the average lan segment (ymmv).
42*(2^64) = 774763251095801167872
Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon. Of course, I've long suspected that the 90% of the universe that's "dark matter" is all contained inside the craniums of all those chucklehead consultants (which is why they're so resistant to interactions with cluons from the rest of reality), so there's unfortunately a definite growth potential there... Anybody feel like starting a pool for when we'll see a posting to NANOG about somebody who's managed to burn through a /32?