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0 Interfaces 1 Interface ... 65535 Interfaces
by StringEpsilon 10y ago
0 Interfaces
1 Interface
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65535 Interfaces
- recursive 10y agoI can't tell if you're joking, but when you're counting a quantity, you don't start from 0.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 10y agoQuantity as in great amount? Either way, sounds like the worst kind of premature optimization to save one bit's worth to lose the ability to ever have the quantity be zero.
- surye 10y agoWhy not? Is having zero interfaces not distinct from having one interface?
- recursive 10y agoIt is. But when you have one interface, that interface can be given the number 0. So you have a total of 1 interface, even though you've only counted up to 0. Edit: I misunderstood. I'll leave the comment up. But I originally interpreted the story as meaning that each interface needed to be assigned an unsigned 16-bit id, which allows for a total of 65536. That was just inference on my part though. It literally says that more than 65535 are not allowed.
- ska 10y agoI suspect it is a play on the 0, 1, infinity rule.