Fixed Boundary (/29) Assignments

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Just as a side note: with IPv6, according to current proposals, every
> > customer gets a /48 - that's not 32 IPv6 addresses, but 2^80.
> uh, 2^32, as the lower 48 are the mac address (or ersatz-mac for privacy
> reasons).

well, it would be 2^16 since the 48bit mac (or replacement) are just 
a part of the 64bit "local" part in EUI64. 

but these 2^16 are the v6-networks (each containing 2^64 IPs), 
not the v6-IPs Gert was talking about. :)

Gruss,
  Hauke

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