[166007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Oct 1 12:06:40 2013
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:04:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGVfgTJER_fVMiyaR58mVS7yUTbGiV3fYJFoSOWUwb3hSA@mail.gmail.com> (William
Herrin's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:32:51 -0400")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> writes:
> IPv4 jumped from 8 bits to 32 bits. Which when you think about it is
> the same ratio as jumping from 32 bits to 128 bits.
Sorry for the late reply, Bill, but you were snoozing when they taught
logarithms in high school weren't you?
Jumping from 8 bits to 32 bits (1:16mm) is the same ratio as would be
jumping from 32 bits to 48 bits (also, 1:16mm).
Going from 32 bits to 128 bits is 1:79228162514264337593543950336 which
is not even remotely the same ratio.
-r
