[124738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sun Apr 4 14:09:45 2010
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:08:56 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "A.B. Jr." <skandor@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <i2x25f9e2131004040753k31515650xc28df222a4abf88e@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:53:54AM -0300, A.B. Jr. 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?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
The IEEE expects the MAC-48 space to be exhausted no sooner than the
year 2100[3]; EUI-64s are not expected to run out in the foreseeable
future.
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