> > What do you think of ipv6? I've read that less than 1% > of the traffic on the internet is ipv6 traffic. I think it's a great idea. We could go back to the old peer-to-peer arpanet architecture. Even set up an independant parallel internet just for the Twin Cities. > > What baffles me about ipv6 is why they decided to go > from 4 byte addresses to 16 bytes. Wouldn't 8 byte > addresses make more sense? That would be a big enough address space for all the people, animals, and plants, but to give virtually everything its own ip address you might need the full set of 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38 addresses. See here for history and sociology of ip4: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ especially the appendices. Ed > > -- > Brian Wood > Ebenezer Enterprises > http://webEbenezer.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >