IPv6 Addressing Help

Tue Aug 18 03:08:07 UTC 2009

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Ray Burkholder wrote:

> Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to 
> contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery 
> crap that exists on any given segment?  And if we have to segment in 
> such a fashion, the request and allocation of additional resources is a 
> natural consequence of such containment.

Don't confuse the reasons for creating subnets with the rationale for 
determining their size.  In IPv6 we really do NOT want to be overly 
concerned about how many hosts a subnet can contain.

Antonio Querubin
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