From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 12:52:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12095 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whizzo.TransSys.COM (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12087 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.TransSys.COM) Received: from whizzo.TransSys.COM (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.TransSys.COM (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05411; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:51:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801242051.PAA05411@whizzo.TransSys.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) cc: Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: IPv6 References: <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> In-reply-to: Your message of "24 Jan 1998 11:30:39 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:51:41 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA12088 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Remember that very soon, IPv6 will no longer be science-fiction or > just a nifty toy, but a necessity. We are this >< close to exhausting > the current 32-bit address space... Uh, there is a big chunk of address space, previously identified as "class-A" addresses, available. If you're going to worry about reasons for moving to IPv6, address space exhaustion in the next few years isn't one of them. The problem isn't running out of addresses, it keeping the global routing table size from exploding due to non-aggregatable routes.