Re:IAB Statement on IPv6
by tptacek on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:56PM
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In practical reality, doesn't that just mitigate the strain caused by an explosion in the size of the address tables?
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A 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.