[114273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Tue May 5 13:28:38 2009
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:28:25 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.utf04orwtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> ([*] according to the wiki, firewire and zigbee are the only things
> using EUI-64. I don't know of anyone using firewire as a network
> backbone. (obviously, not that you care.) Zigbee is relatively new and
> similar to bluetooth; will people use them as a NIC or connect little
> zigbee gadgets to the internet -- well, there are coffee makers, vending
> machines, and christmas lights on the internet, so as a novelty,
> certainly. How many bluetooth devices are running IP over bluetooth?
> That said, I could see PAN meshes (personal area networks) eating a huge
> number of addresses, but /64???)
Utility companies utilize Zigbee pretty extensively. So that's millions
and millions of addresses right there.
