One of the first things that comes to mind, is that if you were to breakout a /64 v6 subnet (a standard-issue subnet to a residential customer) in an Excel spreadsheet, the number of columns you would need is 14 digits long. You could breakout the equivalent of a /12 v4 in just one column. Understandably in the real world no one (in their right mind) would do this, this is just for comparison.
Regards, Christopher H. ________________________________ From: NANOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Owen DeLong via NANOG <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 10:39 AM To: Aaron Gould <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ipv6 address management - documentation Spreadsheets are terrible for IPAM regardless of address length, but I am curious to know why you think IPv6 would be particularly worse than IPv4 in such a scenario? Owen > On Nov 16, 2023, at 10:02, Aaron Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > For years I've used an MS Excel spreadsheet to manage my IPv4 addresses. > IPv6 is going to be maddening to manage in a spreadsheet. What does everyone > use for their IPv6 address prefix management and documentation? Are there > open source tools/apps for this? > > -- > -Aaron
