John Hasler wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > But that opens yet another container of worms. If I arbitrarily assign > > ipv6 local addresses, and later, ipv6 shows up at my side of the router, > > what if I have an address clash with someone on a satellite circuit in > > Ulan Bator. How is that resolved, by unroutable address blocks such as > > 192.168.xx.xx is now? > > In addition to the points made by others, the IPv6 address space is so > large that were you to assign a random IPv6 address to every computer in > existence (including all the embedded systems) the probability of a > collision would be negligible.
... but only if you were really being random. Humans are terrible at doing that unaided. -dsr-
