[131245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Oct 21 16:57:05 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:55:01 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikS4vZYH9JB2+7aAQWVSBhgZkFPZRWuVEhQU8g0@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:43:37PM -0400, Ray Soucy wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:17 AM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
> > first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :)
>
> Couldn't let this one slide...
>
> Bits grow exponentially. Saying IPv6 is 4x IPv4 isn't really accurate
> unless you're counting bits.
tada! 128 == 4x32
--bill
