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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 23:28:14 -0400

On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:29:29 -0400, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:
EUI-64 is required for autoconfig...

"On paper" :-) There's no technological reason why the 48bit MAC wouldn't be enough on it's own. Tacking on an extra (fixed) 16bit value doesn't make it any more unique. Doing so also would not add any level of complexity to address determination -- it's still a simple concat.

Show of hands. How many people have massive firewire based IP networks? *crickets* Right. (I've used ip1394 like twice in over a decade... a file transfer between a laptop and desktop.)


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