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Doesn't ipv6 include efficiencies for this, like hierarchical prefixes?
by mikecb 10y ago
Doesn't ipv6 include efficiencies for this, like hierarchical prefixes?
- tptacek 10y agoIn practical reality, doesn't that just mitigate the strain caused by an explosion in the size of the address tables?
- mikecb 10y agoI guess it depends on how big the efficiency gain is, but afaik it's pretty big.
- toast0 10y agoA sometimes large but solvable part of the problem in ipv4 routing table sizes is numerically adjacent routes that could be aggregated into fewer announcements but aren't; ipv6 doesn't help with that. Another part of the problem is that many networks have lots of allocations that aren't adjacent, so they can't aggregate them; ipv6 should help with that as there's room for big allocations.