Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Mon Apr 19 11:28:04 UTC 2010
On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Chris Campbell wrote:
>
> On 19 Apr 2010, at 03:52, joel jaeggli wrote:
>
>> On 4/18/2010 6:28 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>>> Franck Martin wrote:
>>>> Sure the internet will not die...
>>>>
>>>> But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network will not have completed to dual stack the current IPv4 network. So what will happen?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reality is that as soon as SSL web servers and SSL-capable web browsers
>>> have support for name-based virtual hosts, the number of IPv4 addresses
>>> required will drop. Right now, you need 1 IP address for 1 SSL site;
>>> SNI spec of SSL gets rid of that.
>>
>> my load balancer needs 16 ips for every million simultaneous
>> connections, so does yours.
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not the case for inbound connections...
>
> http://vegan.net/pipermail/lb-l/2008-June/000871.html
>
Depends on which side of the loadbalancer you're talking about and how it is configured.
Owen
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