Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:18:51PM -0400, James Knott wrote
>
>    
>> The IPv6 address space is so huge, there's absolutely no reason to
>> be stingy with addresses.
>>      
>    That's what they once said about IPV4.  I don't like this waste,
> essentially handing out the equivalant of 4 billion times the size of
> the entire IPV4 address space to each customer.  I fear that this may
> come back to bite us one day.
>
>    

Of course, looking at it from the other end, there's the same number of 
subnets as there are addresses within one of those subnets.  It's an 
absolutely huge number.  also, currently only 1/8th of the available 
IPv6 addresses are currently assigned to unicast addresses.  Over 3/4s 
of the address range has yet to be allocated for anything.


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