[124722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim deleskie)
Sun Apr 4 11:06:00 2010
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:57:25 -0300
From: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
To: "A.B. Jr." <skandor@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've seen duplicate addresses in the wild in the past, I assume there
is some amount of reuse, even though they are suppose to be unique.
-jim
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, A.B. Jr. <skandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lots of traffic recently about 64 bits being too short or too long.
>
> What about mac addresses? Aren't they close to exhaustion? Should be. Or it
> is assumed that mac addresses are being widely reused throughout the world?
> All those low cost switches and wifi adapters DO use unique mac addresses?
>
