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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:36:56 +0900


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007, Mark Smith wrote:

Once I realised that IPv6's fixed sized node addressing model was
similar to Ethernet's, I then started wondering why Ethernet was like
it was - and then found a paper that explains it :

"48-bit Absolute Internet and Ethernet Host Numbers"
http://ethernethistory.typepad.com/papers/HostNumbers.pdf


Question. Whats the ethernet 48-bit MAC space usage atm? Does anyone
have a graph showing an E-Day? :)




Adrian


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