The size of such a routing table gives me nightmares ! Thank goodness you have to advertise networks of a reasonably sized prefix length!
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 16:07, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > 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- > >
