Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () gitoyen net>]

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?