[117845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Oct 5 12:20:45 2009
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:19:21 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 05/10/2009 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote:
> So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection
> would be given 2^64 addresses?
>
> I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4
> Internet^2 for a single device!
No, for a single LAN.
> Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
more-or-less. Can I suggest you read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
Think of ipv6 not as 128 bits of address space, but more as a addressing
system with a globally unique host part and 2^64 possible subnets. In this
respect it's substantially different to ipv4.
Nick
