Re: [v6ops] "The Internet is for End Users" (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host-07.txt)

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 17 August 2017 03:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] "The Internet is for End Users" (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host-07.txt)
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

> "If IPv6 IIDs were reduced to something like 32 bits, would any of the
> above be impacted:
>
> - Available and Reliable: No. May have a positive influence, as
> availability and reliability possibly could be increased, as ND cache
> resource exhaustion attacks effectiveness would be reduced.
>

Actually the answer here is also "yes, negatively". It means that networks
with large numbers of users would become unreliable because of IID
collisions. There are networks that run 10k or 20k nodes on a single
subnet. Large corporate networks are an example, or large conferences such
as MWC.