[Gllug] IPv6 (was SATA card recommendations.)

[Anthony Newman]

Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> On the one hand you are correct, on the other hand I am, on the gripping 
> hand we both are.  If you are a company that can (and will) use a 
> significant portion of the /64 address space you are assigned, then 
> there is a huge benefit and the company will use "one" address in the 
> remaining 64 bit address space instead of the thousands assigned out of 
> the 32 bit address space of IPv4.  (Infamous last words here) This 
> should be plenty for the near future.

Realistically, IPv6 is not going to be used this way. Despite it being 
possible to use all of the addresses in a /64 given enough devices on a 
single network (ignoring for the moment that prefixes longer than /64 
are routable in principle), it likely that consumers will be handed /48 
or /56 blocks by their ISPs to simplify matters for everyone. We're 
still not going to run out :)


Ant
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