[75618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Mahoney, System Admin)
Fri Nov 19 03:33:51 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:33:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20041119081546.GA22080@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:06:43AM -0500,
> Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote
> a message of 25 lines which said:
>
>> I'm having trouble wrapping my head around ipv6 style suffixes --
>> does anyone have a chart handy? How big is a /64, specifically?
>
> Since an IPv6 address is 128 bits, a /64 holds 2 ** (128 - 64)
> addresses, which is 2 ** 64. But it seems too simple. This was really
> your question?
Yup. I said it was a stupid question :)
Mainly because I've always remembered CIDR's mnemonically rather than
mathematically.
-Dan
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