[114246] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Mon May 4 23:28:28 2009
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:28:14 -0400
To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49FFA489.6060000@brightok.net>
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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.)
