> So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection would > be given 2^64 addresses? > > I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! Thatâs the IPv4 Internet^2 > for a single device! > > Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
The fact that you could use it for a single device is irrelevant. We have learned the problems imposed by the shortsightedness of IPv4. You're already given 65536 ports for your IPv4 device. OMG, you do not /really/ need that many for a single device! This issue has been hashed over many times. Stop thinking IPv4, where bits are in sufficiently short supply that we "feel" assignment of any extra space is "waste." Start thinking IPv6, where bits are in such great supply that it makes sense to think about stuff like making sure delegations are sufficiently large that your typical ASN isn't having to advertise a hundred prefixes of cobbled-together-over-the-years space, that NAT can be purged from the face of the earth, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
