Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Melzzzzz Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.embedded,uk.telecom.broadband,uk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Next gen gate keeper modem/routers need improvement for IoT Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 22:58:16 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 27 Message-ID: <20141102225816.54a5b4bc@maxa-pc> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Pasqk0R7oaTjySCXFh3lwHYdi2d4bw4kxUk3YXhC86Y46R7uhK326bPQwH97s0UnuA11PutyPanAbL2YMrYF6A== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="HQQoZFu2SlguQy7GREy300YYUwx2nn4B2j8qB42xoqxCsZXqFaXlZo5l0ohNsbv3sy7ER0mfXdxV8RcroW9/n6Ikl+PN2ewQwsPYRF51VFAnG2hMp2HKslUaQB4uOWEv"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8qRDdRgZ7vSV1bCaNdzdZnpQOug= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:265694 comp.os.linux.embedded:719 On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:04:22 +0000 7 wrote: > Next gen gate keeper modem/routers need improvement for IoT > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > The idea of ports needs to be replaced with > unique service names that can handle > a 64 bit identifier for unique names. > There are going to tons of new service names for IoT > devices if they are to take off. > There aren't enough ports to handle this kind of traffic. > > The idea of ip address also need to replaced with > unique host names. Port identifies protocol (there aren't that many) and ip address identifies particular host. I see only problem with ipv4 (32bit address), but what's wrong with ipv6 (128bit addresses)? You can't use host/protocol name in ip packet as it is unnecessary bloat... -- Manjaro all the way! http://manjaro.org/