Philip Homburg wrote: > The kids get their own networks to play multi-person games, the > light switches go on a separate network, any piece of hardware that is > not completely secure should not be on a broadcast network, > so the ADSL or > cable modem, the wireless basestation, etc. each get their > own networks. > VPNs may require their own prefixes, etc.
This is why sites should be allocated /48s. There is no inherent reason to break into the interface id space for subnets. This is particularly true when the reason is simply to satisfy the draconian address conservation attitude required to extend the life of IPv4 until IPv6 can be deployed. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
