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Re: How many IP addresses?

2000-04-25 13:00:04
Doesn't this leave out a few pieces of data?  Given the current IPv6
address format, which includes a globally unique 64 bit interface ID and 64
bits of globally unique routing goop.  My calculation is that you only have
2^64 addresses to work with which leaves roughly 12 bits, maybe 14 to work
with.

right.  but for privacy reasons you really don't want to transmit the 
64 bit interface ID around anyway.  so at some point you reclaim
those bits for use in routing.

Keith



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