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> But the old-fashioned, pre-CIDR allocation strategy of IPv6 is _incredibly_ wasteful of address space. What would be wasteful would be keeping even more addr
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> But the old-fashioned, pre-CIDR allocation strategy of IPv6 is _incredibly_ wasteful of address space.
What would be wasteful would be keeping even more address space unallocated, as that would cause all kinds of costs, from administrative overhead, incentives to build unnecessarily suboptimal networks, delays due to address allocation processing, to more fragmented and thus larger routing tables and renumbering.
Saving address space for the sake of saving address space is not useful.
- kortilla 7y agoBut a 64 for a single host isn’t driven by any of that.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoWho is suggesting that you use "64"(?) for a single host?
- login01 7y agoFunny, IPv6 is _incredibly_ wasteful of address space.... Only 1/8 of the address space is allocation using this strategy. Based on current projects, we won't need to break into the additional space till 2035 or later.