[101309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Dec 27 23:30:31 2007
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:36:56 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071228144946.74ef3383.nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.pdf
>
Question. Whats the ethernet 48-bit MAC space usage atm? Does anyone
have a graph showing an E-Day? :)
Adrian
