misunderstanding scale

Tue Mar 25 03:13:04 UTC 2014

On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez at opsys.com> wrote:

> not to mention the cost in readdressing your entire network when you change an upstream provider.
> 
> Nat was a fix to a problem of lack of addresses,  however, the use of private address space 10/8, 192.168/16 has allowed many to enjoy a simple network addressing scheme.

This is easily and better solved in IPv6 using provider independent addressing which is readily available.

> Ipv6 requires a complete reeducation of they way we look at routing and the  core of the network.

I wouldn’t say complete, but significant.

Owen