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Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...
From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm () prime gushi org>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:33:41 -0500 (EST)
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 --"Of course she's gonna be upset! You're dealing with a woman here Dan, what the hell's wrong with you?"
-S. Kennedy, 11/11/01 --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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