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Old 07-23-2010, 09:55 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by Spudstr View Post
Now lets look at IPv6. Given that ARIN is allocating out /32's worth of IPv6 address space. Which is in essence every every single person the equivalent of 4billion IPs. Yes they are giving out the entire ipv4 routing table equivalent to everyone who wants it as the minimum.

Now the SMALLEST IPv6 address prefix that you can announce as the current "standard" is a /48. There are 64,000 /48's inside of a /32. So yes this means. it will take less than 5 networks announcing every single /48's individually to fill the same amount of router memory as todays IPv4 network space.
Been a while since I looked into ipv6 (should probably do more I guess) but I find it hard to believe that they'd be allocating single IPs to different entities and expect that the global net would be able to handle routing? Wasn't that just for testing purposes years ago when everyone was using tunnels?
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