[101310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Fri Dec 28 00:20:58 2007
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:49:26 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071228043656.GA5211@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.pdf
> >
>
> Question. 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.
--
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