alt Hacker NewsUh, no it didn't? Routing table size is still something of a problem, especially as v4 continues to fragment more and more, but also the main driver was insufficient IP addresses in v4 and that problem hasn't even slightly gone away.
Uh, no it didn't? Routing table size is still something of a problem, especially as v4 continues to fragment more and more, but also the main driver was insufficient IP addresses in v4 and that problem hasn't even slightly gone away.
I was there, reading the ipv6 mailing list eagerly. Address space exhaustion was a smaller problem because NAT was pretty primitive, so called carrier grade NAT was not even a thing yet. But cisco had the largest routers and their biggest was not big enough for the core router fabrics projected growth. And there was not enough demand (yet) for very large routers fir cisco to want to design and build the nevessary chips. The IPv6 people thought they held all the cards and could mandate whatever they wanted.
But of course, it was s very long time ago and my memory may be inexact.