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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:49:26 +1030
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:36:56 +0900 Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007, Mark Smith wrote:Once I realised that IPv6's fixed sized node addressing model was similar to Ethernet's, I then started wondering why Ethernet was like it was - and then found a paper that explains it : "48-bit Absolute Internet and Ethernet Host Numbers" http://ethernethistory.typepad.com/papers/HostNumbers.pdfQuestion. Whats the ethernet 48-bit MAC space usage atm? Does anyone have a graph showing an E-Day? :)
Apparently there's a foreseeable one, hence EUI-64s. Novell'll have to extend their IPX node addressing to 64 bits. Regards, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers, (continued)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Leo Bicknell (Dec 21)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 22)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Brandon Butterworth (Dec 24)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Leigh Porter (Dec 25)
- RE: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers John van Oppen (Dec 25)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Scott Weeks (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Randy Bush (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Adrian Chadd (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Marshall Eubanks (Dec 29)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 29)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 29)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Jeroen Massar (Dec 30)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 30)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Joel Jaeggli (Dec 31)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 31)
- Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers Mark Smith (Dec 31)