alt Hacker NewsAt first I though so too but IPv6 is actually easier. instead of CIDR you always have 64 bits for network and 64 for host. You get a public /48 IPv6 prefix that allows for 16 bits of subnets and then the host addresses can just start at 1 if you really want. So addresses can be prefix_1_1 if you want. And the prefix is easy to memorize since it never changes.
I DO think using 64 bits for hosts was stupid but oh well.
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Sohcahtoa82 • last Saturday at 12:25 AM
> I DO think using 64 bits for hosts was stupid but oh well.
Hey man, if I want to assign an address for each individual transistor in my system, that's my business.
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That seems oddly rigid though. I need to known in advance which networks will definitely never need subnetting so I can assign them a /64.
Why have so, so many address bits and then give us so few for subnetting? People shame ISPs endlessly for only giving out /56s instead of /48s, pointing at the RFCs and such. But we still have 64 entire bits left over there on the right! For what? SLAAC? Was DHCP being stateful really such a huge problem that it deserves sacrificing half of our address bits?