Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

Thu Jul 9 15:08:53 UTC 2015

Probably because he got good advise from his father :)

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Harald Koch <chk at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 9 July 2015 at 09:11, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>
> > I think you're confusing very common for a tech guy and very common for
> > the common man. I have a dozen or two v4 subnets in my house. Then
> again, I
> > also run my ISP out of my house, so I have a ton of stuff going on. I
> can't
> > even think of a handful of other people that would have more than one.
> >
>
> My son (who is not a tech guy but is a gamer) has four subnets in his
> (rented) house already: private LAN, guest network, home control network,
> and a separate LAN for the tenant downstairs who is sharing their broadband
> connection. And he's just getting started.
>
> The "common man" is becoming much more sophisticated in their networking
> requirements, and they need this stuff to just work. Please don't place
> artificially small limits just because you can't see a need.
>
> --
> Harald
>