Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?2000-08-11 07:40:03Anthony Atkielski wrote: Brian Carpenter writes:This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was given to every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we would consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space.Surely you recall the quotation attributed to Thomas J. Watson: "The world will never need more than five computers." Indeed, although he probably never said it. That's why we didn't pick 64 bits for the IPv6 address. Brian
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