[156612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Burgers (was: IPv6 Ignorance)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Sep 20 17:58:32 2012
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:57:42 -0400
To: Richard Brown <richard.e.brown@dartware.com>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:29 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> The 1/4 inch patty holds all the IPv4 LANs whose IPv4 capacity I'm
> calling 2^28. IPv6's in principle has 2^64 LANs, so an increase of
> 2^36 LANs. Patty was 1/4 inch, so our IPv6 patty is 2^32 inches or
> about 10 billionths of a lightyear. 68,000 miles, a little over a
> quarter of the distance to the moon.
2^34, my bad. So you get a full moon burger out of it.
-Bill
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