On Oct 9, 2011 11:16 PM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Shishio Tsuchiya wrote:
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>> 2^64 host address space would be too enough for homenet.
>
>
> I would just like to comment on this even though you retracted your
question.
>
> As an ISP, I do not want to participate in a home with hundreds or
thousands of active IPv6 addresses that I need to keep state for. Most
likely, when we have central equipment participating in a home network,
we'll implement a limit on number of neighbours it'll allow on the subnet.
Doing ND/NS a lot takes resources.
>
> If customer wants to use more IPv6 addresses, we'll require them to get a
home router and PD address space to it to distribute the ND/NS load.
>

Agreed. But I think it is worth noting that nd-proxy is  practical in mobile
networks where each subscriber gets a unique /64.

Mobile network attachment has popped up a few times in homenet discussions.

Cb
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