[CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

David Sommerseth dazo at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 7 17:19:56 UTC 2010


On 07/12/10 18:01, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/7/10 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
[...snip...]
>> "permit outbound client connections from anything connected behind them
>> without  much regard to how many devices there are, and block everything
>> else" isn't NAT.  That's a router/firewall.  Happily IPv6 does that
>> exactly.
> 
> You didn't mention the number of devices - how does that play out when you 
> exceed the number initially set up?

How many devices?  You mean exceeding the number of available inside a
IPv6 subnet?  I do hope you're kidding ... as for a /64 subnet we're
talking about 4.294.967.296 addresses doubled 32 times.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth




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