Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

Mon Apr 19 02:52:05 UTC 2010

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.

> --Patrick
>