Re: IPv6 for Websites

On 9/28/12 11:58 AM, "Brian McGahan" <bmcgahan_at_ine.com> wrote:

>Obviously IPv6 solves the address shortage problem, because the space is
>much larger. What I'm saying though is that making the address space
>larger just makes the problem worse, not better. Also the real situation
>with IPv4 address shortage isn't really what most people think.

A very large part of that problem is bad behavior by operators or their
customers which either requires deaggregation for traffic engineering, or
for other purposes.

For example, at a previous employer, we had a potential customer who
wanted to lease separate /24's from us. Had to be separate /24's. Same
customer also had their own /16, which they wanted us to announce
 but
only if we'd announce them all as /24's.

That kind of behavior is repeated ad nauseum the world over, and will
exist no matter what IP version we're going to use. It will require
operators to either implement stricter standards and better addressability
plans to take advantage of summarization, or it will require the vendors
to crank out some hardware upgrades capable of handling the growth and
resulting demand in resources.

I'm betting the latter is more likely, since folks like Cisco and Juniper
like to make money.

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Received on Fri Sep 28 2012 - 14:06:09 ART