what about 48 bits?

Sun Apr 4 14:57:25 UTC 2010

I've seen duplicate addresses in the wild in the past, I assume there
is some amount of reuse, even though they are suppose to be unique.

-jim

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, A.B. Jr. <skandor at gmail.com> 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?
>