[85755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 daydreams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Mon Oct 17 05:38:34 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:29:24 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@hotnic.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051017185841.3b89a4ea.random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Mark Smith wrote:
> We didn't
> get 48 bits because we needed them (although convenience is a need, if
> it wasn't we'd still be hand winding our car engines to start them ). We
> got them because it made doing other things much easier, such as (near)
> guarantees of world wide unique NIC addresses, allowing "plug-and-play",
> at least a decade before the term was invented.
This is not a scientific opinion but I think you can pick a random host
id from 32 bit space on most lans without having to retry very often.
- Kevin
