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Can you fill all of the Great Lakes with M&M sized /64s?
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Posted to my blog at the request of RobL !
On Nanog, Owen DeLong and Larry Sheldon were discussing the relative size of the IPv6 address space:
>> 64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond M&M,
>> you would be able to fill all of the great lakes with M&Ms before you
>> ran [...]
2010 will be a bad year for ipv4
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We are now at the end of January, but IPv4, the Internet’s core addressing protocol still has a nasty hangover, and all signs are pointing to 2010 being a bad year for the protocol.
Since January 1st, a few key milestones have passed, indicating how urgent the IPv4 rundown problem has become. Firms that rely on [...]
IPv6 Track at NANOG
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Greetings from Philadelphia! I am presenting as part of the IPv6 at NANOG46 (click here for info of how to watch) at 9:30PM UK time today, or download the IPv6 for Enterprises presentation here, or see information about the other speakers here..
The messages are clear and simple. Working now to get ready for the IPv6 [...]
IPv4 Run-out policies in Europe
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There are a few policy suggestions pushing their way through the RIPE policy development process which discuss how the final remaining IPv4 addresses should be given to end users in the European region.
They all show that the effects of scarsity of IP addresses will be felt before the final few addresses become assigned to end [...]
18 months? And google are nimble?
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Google recently announced that they’d done a front-to-back implementation of IPv6, using engineers’ spare time, in 18 months. Cue well over 100 comments on slashdot claiming that this goes to show how hard implementing any sort of v6 service is at all, given it takes a company known for hiring smart people as long as [...]
IPv6 Tooling talk
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At 3pm I’ll deliver this lightning talk to the LINX IPv6 Specialist Techical Workshop 2009 on IPv6 Tooling.
It covers :
Provisioning tools/notes
SNMP
NetFlow notes
Scripting notes
2011 – An addressing odyssey. Preparing enterprise for IPv6.
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Yesterday I gave a talk to Sheffield GeekUp on preparing enterprises for IPv6 [download]. The premise of the talk was :
IPv4 addresses are scarse, and at current consumption rates, the IANA pool of free v4 addresses will be gone at the start of 2011.
This starts a “Post IPv4 world” where the IPv4 internet continues to [...]
