[111281] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Feb 2 21:25:50 2009
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:25:40 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <F63B1F64-B532-453D-8E66-9E2C36C12567@daork.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it
>> just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repeat all the old mistakes
>> with.
> Not quite..
> 2^96 = 79228162514264337593543950336
> 2^128-2^32 = 340282366920938463463374607427473244160
not quite. let's posit 42 devices on the average lan segment
(ymmv).
42*(2^64) = 774763251095801167872
randy
