[c-nsp] IPv6 Subnetting - Service Provider

[Dmitry Kiselev]

Hello!

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +0100, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:

> my initial (and, i guess, current) IPv6 deployment plan
> was based on /64 subnets.  yes, thats a ridiculous amount
> of hosts per subnet...nasty software coded in 'the old style'
> might make these very big collision domains and i do worry about
> how ISC DHCPv6 will handle such large numbers of leases -
> recalling how it deals with /16's in IPv4 land.

Don't worry. :) ISC made pretty well dhcp server. We run it to
serve huge amount of IPv4 hosts without significant performance
patches. Fast and rock-stable.

$ cat dhcpd.leases | grep ^lease | wc -l
  756910
$

-- 
Dmitry Kiselev