Re: [vserver] Re: Linux source address selection vs. EUI-64

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen_at_leitl.org>
Date: Sun 14 Nov 2010 - 07:42:05 GMT
Message-ID: <20101114074205.GU28998@leitl.org>

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:42:38AM +0100, Romain Riviere wrote:

> > Who knows, a /56 is a BIG space, yet if we start handing out /56 space to light switches then perhaps we are back at square one?
>
> Except that there are 2^56 /56 prefixes, roughly 10 million
> times the world population. I don't see exhaustion looming over the 35-year horizon just quite yet :)--

I beg to differ. Dust mote sensor networks can easily be in
excess of billions or trillions devices.

Moreover, the solar system is pretty big. Add self-replicating
hardware, and suddenly 128 bits and 35 years don't appear
that much.
Received on Sun Nov 14 07:42:47 2010

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