[HN Gopher] The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal
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       The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-12-23 16:11 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.apnic.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.apnic.net)
        
       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | Setting aside the address scarcity issue, how is IPv6 going to
       | simplify the routing table? If anything, it would just be an
       | explosion of the number of addresses?
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       | I mean a million is objectively a large number if it's all on
       | paper, but to me, that's not a particularly large data set for
       | talking about the entire freaking internet.
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       | And how cheap of a SOC can handle that in memory? A better
       | question might be to even make a system on a chip that couldn't
       | handle that memory?
        
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