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IPv6 Ignorance
John Mitchell wrote:
> I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is...
They don't. Instead, they suffer from it.
> Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or
> 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)
That is one of a major design flaw of IPv6 as a result of failed
attempt to have SLAAC, which resulted in so stateful and time
wasting mechanism.
As it is virtually impossible to remember IPv6 addresses, IPv6
operation is a lot harder than necessary.
Masataka Ohta