IP4 Space

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Thu Mar 18 19:25:43 UTC 2010


> On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:24 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Joel made a remarkable assertion
>> that non-aggregable assignments to end users, the ones still needed
>> for multihoming, would go down under IPv6. I wondered about his
>> reasoning. Stan then offered the surprising clarification that a
>> reduction in the use of NAT would naturally result in a reduction of
>> multihoming.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Stan Barber <sob at academ.com> wrote:
> I was not trying to say there would be a reduction in multihoming. I was
> trying to say that the rate of increase in non-NATed single-homing
> would increase faster than multihoming. I guess I was not very clear.


Hi Stan,

Your logic still escapes me. Network-wise there's not a lot of
difference between a single-homed  IPv4 /32 and a single-homed IPv6
/56. Host-wise there may be a difference but why would you expect that
to impact networks?

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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