Re: Port numbers and IPv6

[Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>]

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> > I'm saying that one source system can generate more than 64K 
> > IMAP4 sessions. These are systems running various sorts of 
> > proxies, so they are in effect hosting many clients at once.
>
>
> True, but if we are running IPv6 then surely the solution to this
> problem would be to simply request some number of additional IP address
> allocations via DHCP?
>
> This is already done in the IPv4 world, it can be done in the IPv6
> world.

More than that: the fact that the interface ID namespace in IPv6 is large
means that virtual IP addresses are available more or less on demand.
I think this is something we really haven't started to exploit yet.

   Brian


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