Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Alain Durand
On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A properly implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, while a native client will take the direct path. Not quite. Say the server has

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Durand
On 8/19/08 1:36 PM, Nathan Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64 bits is not a magical boundary. 112 bits is widely recommended for linknets, for example. 64 bits is common, because of EUI-64 and friends. That's it. There is nothing, anywhere, that says that the first 64 bits is for

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Alain Durand
On 8/19/08 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice, many routers require the packet to go twice in the hardware if the prefix length is 64 bits, so even though it is a total waste of space, it is not stupid to use /64 for point-to-point links and even for loopbacks!