v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

Sun Dec 30 00:16:09 UTC 2007

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:14:25 -0500
Marshall Eubanks <tme at multicasttech.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 27, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:57:45 +0900
> > Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Ever calculated how many Ethernet nodes you can attach to a  
> >>> single LAN
> >>> with 2^46 unicast addresses?
> >>
> >> you mean operationally successfully, or just for marketing glossies?
> >>
> >
> > Theoretically. What I find a bit hard to understand is peoples'
> > seemingly complete acceptance of the 'gross' amount of ethernet  
> > address
> > space there is available with 46 bits available for unicast addressing
> > on a single LAN segment, yet confusion and struggle over the  
> > allocation
> > of additional IPv6 bits addressing bits for the same purpose - the
> > operational convenience of having addressing "work out of the box" or
> > be simpler to understand and easier to work with.
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> Would it be possible to find the even part of this paper ? This  
> version only has the odd numbered pages.
> 

Hmm, you're right. The version I originally read was from somewhere
else, and that was complete. I figured this one was more "original" as
it's on one of the papers author's websites, so I've remembered that
one, and even deleted my original electronic copy for this one. I'll try to find
the other copy.

Regards,
Mark.

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