[CentOS] Help with IPv6 /48 block

F. Mendez

fmendez73 at terra.com
Sun Jan 11 05:19:21 UTC 2015


El 10/01/2015 a las 11:41 p.m., John R Pierce escribió:
> On 1/10/2015 8:10 PM, F. Mendez wrote:
>> El 10/01/2015 a las 04:03 p.m., John R Pierce escribió:
>>> On 1/10/2015 12:56 PM, F. Mendez wrote:
>>>> We need that same with IPv6 since we have a /48 and we need to have 
>>>> all IPv6s available for usage. 
>>>
>>> Do you realize that a ipv6 /48 is a septillion IP addresses? thats 
>>> 1,208,925,819,614,629,200,000,000 individual IPs ?
>>>
>>> Or, its 65536 /64 subnets of  18,446,744,073,709,552,000 hosts each.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hello. Yes I confirm...its a /48 (this guys are crazy here at my 
>> work...). 
>
> so what is it you want to do with these 1.2 septillion IP addresses?   
> you certainly can't assign them all to one system, there's not that 
> many file handles, nor can one system have anywheres remotely close to 
> that many vhosts.
>
>
>
Yup. It is actually just a way to figure out how to handle this with 
easy. But this will be use for a wide spread implementation.



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