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RE: Why IPv6 is a must?

2001-11-29 08:50:02
That depends on what you mean by 'realistic'

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Deering [mailto:deering(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:02 PM
To: erosen(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Why IPv6 is a must?


At 8:36 AM -0500 11/29/01, Eric Rosen wrote:
Sure, in  theory one could add  zillions of new  globally routable
addresses
without increasing the  size of the routing tables  in the default-free
zone
at all. 

The skepticism is about whether there is (or even could be) a realistic
plan
to make this happen.

What's the realistic plan to prevent the IPv4 routing table from growing
to 2^32 route entries?

Steve



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