Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:56:49AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Just as a side note: with IPv6, according to current proposals, every
> > customer gets a /48 - that's not 32 IPv6 addresses, but 2^80.
> 
> uh, 2^32, as the lower 48 are the mac address (or ersatz-mac for privacy
> reasons).

Ummm, no - you have 2^16 networks, and can have 2^64 machines in each
network (or at least 2^48, assuming "ethernet technology" and unique MAC
addresses).

Certainly more than 2^32 - but even then, it doesn't matter at all, as
it is "enough", and it's a lot more than "32 IPv6 addresses" as in the
original proposal I was responding to.

Gert Doering
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