Geoff on IPv4 Exhaustion

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Tue Nov 15 17:30:03 CET 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:54:06PM +0000, Tord Førland wrote:
> 
> It's been quiet on the list for a while. Time to get a discussion going! 
> 
> Geoff Huston spoke about IPv4 depletion at Ripe63. Some of you might have seen this before, but I thought this was worth sharing. He really puts things into perspective!
> 
> http://ripe63.ripe.net/archives/video/238/
> 
> Let the flaming on our future begin.

One of the missing links on the client side is working DHCPv6 software.

It's ridiculous to not be able to configure hosts the same way it has been
done in IPv4 for years.
The bare minimum includes sending router and DNS information on a host-by-host
(not complete LAN segment) basis.

-- 
Francois Tigeot


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