Subnetting Practices

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:25:41AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 
> >Lots of stuff I read encourages seemingly wasteful practices in v6  
> >space as a good thing and it confuses me.
> 
> Same here - assuming IPv6 is ever deployed widely and every soda can,  
> window-blind, auto part, and nanomachine in one's bloodstream, along  
> with an infinitude of various other spimes, is expected to have IP  
> addresses and communicate wirelessly, it seems almost criminal.

The whole *point* of "large-enough network sizes" in IPv6 is to be able
to have a gazillion devices inside each network, without having to
worry "oh, this network is too small, I need to renumber it" ever so 
often.

So I can't really see what you're complaining about.

Gert Doering
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