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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Thu Dec 27 23:32:15 2007 
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007, Mark Smith wrote:

> Once I realised that IPv6's fixed sized node addressing model was
> similar to Ethernet's, I then started wondering why Ethernet was like
> it was - and then found a paper that explains it :
> 
> "48-bit Absolute Internet and Ethernet Host Numbers"
> http://ethernethistory.typepad.com/papers/HostNumbers.pdf
> 

Question. Whats the ethernet 48-bit MAC space usage atm? Does anyone
have a graph showing an E-Day? :)




Adrian