[121664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sat Jan 23 23:04:41 2010
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:04:31 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1D684EE0-75B5-41D8-802E-9901CC182D61@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/23/2010 9:47 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> 64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond M&M,
>>> you would be able to fill all of the great lakes with M&Ms before you
>>> ran out of /64s.
>>
>> Did somebody once say something like that about Class C addresses?
>>
> The number of /24s in all of IPv4 would only cover 70 yards of a football
> field (in a single layer of M&Ms). Compared to the filling the
> three-dimensional full volume of all 5 great lakes, I am hoping you can
> see the vast difference in the comparison.
Of course--I was asking about the metaphorical message implying "More
than we can imagine ever needing".
I remember a day when 18 was the largest number of computers that would
ever be needed.
--
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to
take everything you have."
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