IPv6 Renumbering – Mission Impossible?
In one of the discussions on v6ops mailing list Matthew Petach wrote:
The probability of us figuring out how to scale the routing table to handle 40 billion prefixes is orders of magnitude more likely than solving the headaches associated with dynamic host renumbering. That ship has done gone and sailed, hit the proverbial iceberg, and is gathering barnacles at the bottom of the ocean.
Is it really that bad? Is simple renumbering in IPv6 world just another myth? It depends.
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