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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 17:39:28 UTC 2010


On 12/7/10 11:19 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> 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.

Is that what people will automatically get in a home ISP connection?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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