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

From: Romain Riviere <romain.riviere_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun 14 Nov 2010 - 10:27:06 GMT
Message-Id: <E0C88FE0-4A13-4D16-BD70-8769D0AA968C@gmail.com>

Le 14 nov. 2010 à 08:42, Eugen Leitl a écrit :

> 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.

Ok, so let's allocate a couple /32 for all these machines and be done with it. That's a little under 8 × 10^28 per /32 :-)
Received on Sun Nov 14 10:27:52 2010

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