Stupid Ipv6 question...

Fri Nov 19 08:33:41 UTC 2004

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:06:43AM -0500,
> Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm at prime.gushi.org> wrote
> a message of 25 lines which said:
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>> 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

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