It's been a while since I was configuring subnets, and last time I did the guidance was always no more than 1,000 hosts per subnet/vlan. A lot of that was IPv4 thinking regarding broadcast domains, but generally speaking we kept to it for dual stacked networks, equating an IPv4 /22 with an IPv6 /64. (This was commonly in office environments where we used a subnet per floor to accommodate all of the desktops, printers, phones, tablets, etc.)

Is this still how people roll nowadays? Have switches and/or other network gear advanced to the point where subnets larger than 1k hosts are workable? In IPv4 or IPv6? I've done quite a bit of web searching, and can't find anything newer than 2014 that has any kind of intelligent discussion of this topic.

Doug

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