How could you ever have really long addresses without having that problem?
They don't need to be really long. Adding one more octet to v4 makes it 1 trillion addresses. Sure the header should support longer than that, but it doesn't mean everyone needs to use all of it.
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They don't need to be really long. Adding one more octet to v4 makes it 1 trillion addresses. Sure the header should support longer than that, but it doesn't mean everyone needs to use all of it.