Re: what about 48 bits?

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:53:54AM -0300, A.B. Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lots of traffic recently about 64 bits being too short or too long.
>
> What about mac addresses? Aren't they close to exhaustion? Should be.
> Or it is assumed that mac addresses are being widely reused throughout
> the world? All those low cost switches and wifi adapters DO use unique
> mac addresses?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

The IEEE expects the MAC-48 space to be exhausted no sooner than the 
year 2100[3]; EUI-64s are not expected to run out in the foreseeable 
future.

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