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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
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In-Reply-To: <16970.962986557@mundamutti.cs.mu.OZ.AU>; from kre@munnari.OZ.AU on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:15:57AM +1000

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:15:57AM +1000, Robert Elz wrote:

> Except that IEEE has created 64 bit MAC identifiers for use by its
> new protocols, and /80 would kill easy autoconf.

Of course.

> For sure, /80
> (even /96) leaves way too many addresses for any conceivable subnet
> to ever use them all -

For traditional subnets, you're right, but...

assuming everybody could afford (at least) on phone, IP(v6) over the NMBA
network called "the world-wide phone system" already would need more then
2^32 addresses, right? /80 would be a problem even for all phones in Germany.

Regards,
	Ignatios

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