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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:28:14 -0400
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:29:29 -0400, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:
EUI-64 is required for autoconfig...
"On paper" :-) There's no technological reason why the 48bit MAC wouldn't be enough on it's own. Tacking on an extra (fixed) 16bit value doesn't make it any more unique. Doing so also would not add any level of complexity to address determination -- it's still a simple concat.
Show of hands. How many people have massive firewire based IP networks? *crickets* Right. (I've used ip1394 like twice in over a decade... a file transfer between a laptop and desktop.)
Current thread:
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Leo Bicknell (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 04)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 04)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Greco (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Valdis . Kletnieks (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Greco (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Maimon (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Joe Greco (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses trejrco (May 05)