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The last 64 bits of an IPv6 address are the host bits. I think it is stupid also, it should have been 16 or at most 24 bits for the hosts.
by HyperSane 4y ago
The last 64 bits of an IPv6 address are the host bits. I think it is stupid also, it should have been 16 or at most 24 bits for the hosts.
- postultimate 4y agoThe last 64 bits are derived from the MAC of the interface, which is quite a good idea (we probably won't see MAC exhausion because it's only two-level, and it's supposedly guaranteed unique). The stupidity lies eleswhere. (Seriously. Just how fucking stupid do you have to be to replace a protocol whose addresses are too short, with one whose addresses are too short.)
- HyperSane 4y agoExcept MAC addresses are 48 bit.