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Comment by cylemons

6 days ago

What do you mean by suboptimal allocation?

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cylemons

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_ikke_  5 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  5 days ago

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

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