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		cylemons 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over th... What do you mean by suboptimal allocation?

_ikke_ 10 days ago [–]

The ipv4 routing table contains many individual /24 subnets that cannot be summarized, causing bloat in the routing tables.

With ipv6, that can be simplified with just a couple of /32 or /48 prefixes per AS.

morshu9001 10 days ago | [–]

This, because a bunch of random /24s were sold off to different ISPs, because of address scarcity.

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