Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-06 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I've been ignoring this discussion because I feel this ship sailed many years ago, and IPv6, like it or hate it, is the best way forward we have. But, assuming you're expanding the address space, the simplest solution is to add the additional bits addresses at the end. I.E. every existing /32

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-06 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:47:24 -0400, b...@theworld.com said: > All a strictly IPv4 only host/router would need to understand in that > case is the IHL, which it does already, and how to interpret whatever > flag/option is used to indicate the presence of additional address > bits mostly to ignore

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-06 Thread bzs
On October 6, 2019 at 16:35 jhellent...@dataix.net (J. Hellenthal) wrote: > And in which part of the header is this to be added ? I assume you mean the additional address. The IHL provides for up to 60 bytes of IP header length. 20 bytes is needed for the usual IPv4 header so an additional 40

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-06 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
And in which part of the header is this to be added ? -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Oct 6, 2019, at 15:58, b...@theworld.com wrote: > >  >> On October 6, 2019 at 15:18

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-06 Thread bzs
On October 6, 2019 at 15:18 mpal...@hezmatt.org (Matt Palmer) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 04:36:50PM -0400, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > > > On October 4, 2019 at 15:26 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote: > > > > > > OK… Let’s talk about how? > > > > > > How would you have