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Comment by est31

One of the ideas of ipv6 was to reduce routing tables, those tables that backbone providers have to keep in memory and look up for incoming traffic. With ipv4's fragmented allocation scheme, these routing tables are huge. With ipv6, even huge companies like amazon only have a couple of global allocations. A "ipv4 with more octets" scheme would have kept that fragmentation around.

That being said, Amazon currently has 2880 ipv4 allocations and 946 ipv6 allocations... not much gained I guess? :p https://asnlookup.com/asn/AS16509/

Also, there are definitely some horrible ipv6 warts, like that the only standard for local ipv6 addresses forces you to adopt a scheme where your local address is horribly long, for the sake of global uniqueness, which is something that most people don't really need.

parent est31 3 years ago

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