[85752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 daydreams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Oct 17 05:09:18 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:08:49 -1000
To: Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> If we're going to do that, we may as well also start reclaiming
> those 48 bit MAC addresses that come with ethernet cards. After
> all, nobody would need anymore than say 12 to 13 bits to address
> their LANs.
so you think that layer-2 lans scale well above 12-13 bits?
which ones in particular?
randy
