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I mean we've managed to stretch v4 for 20 years longer than anyone thought possible. Adding one more bit to the address would have doubled the size of the v4 sp
by mprovost 5y ago
I mean we've managed to stretch v4 for 20 years longer than anyone thought possible. Adding one more bit to the address would have doubled the size of the v4 space, so another 8 bits would have been plenty.
- lowercased 5y agoYep. But... "now every star in our galaxy can have their own /16 block!". That's a paraphrased recollection I have from some networking colleague in '98 when this all was coming down. It seemed a strange goal, and I'm presuming he was just trying to illustrate how 'vast' IPv6 was.