From: Jima > > What have you done with or for IPv6? A week or so of IPv6 programming in the code here -- http://webEbenezer.net/build_integration.html . > No, 64-bit host addresses wouldn't "make more sense." If you're > thinking of the IPv6 address space as 128-bit host addresses, you're > doing it wrong. Think of it as 64-bit network addresses, each with an > irrelevant number of hosts. The lower 64 bits were engineered for > autoconfiguration, and can be ignored for 90+% of scalability discussions. An IPv6 packet header has the source and destination addresses -- both 16 bytes. The header is 40 bytes total. If the addresses were 8 bytes the header would be 24 bytes. I'm not sure what you mean by ignoring the lower 64 bits in scalability discussions. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121016/b230d152/attachment.html>