* Peter Corlett (ab...@cabal.org.uk) [100120 13:25]: > On 20 Jan 2010, at 10:54, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > > .... On our border routers > > at $company we're currently looking at 305,000 prefixes.
> Serious question: When IPv6 grows to the same size as the existing IPv4 > network, what is preventing it from also not having a similar number of > prefixes? Hierarchical route aggregation is a good start, but no solution. The IPv4-space is heavily fragmented because everyone runs out of their allocated range all the time, to ask for a new and unrelated range. With all historical mistakes and policy changes, the IP space has become a mess. IPv6 offers much much larger ranges and much simpler renumbering schemes. The old mistakes are undone: enough ways to make new mistakes. -- MarkOv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Overmeer MSc MARKOV Solutions m...@overmeer.net soluti...@overmeer.net http://Mark.Overmeer.net http://solutions.overmeer.net