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IPv6 devotes a giant chunk of space to ephemeral link-local connections, if I recall correctly, at least a /64. So you'd need about 10^18 nanobots or so before
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
IPv6 devotes a giant chunk of space to ephemeral link-local connections, if I recall correctly, at least a /64. So you'd need about 10^18 nanobots or so before you start to have to worry about link local address exhaustion.
These do not have to be globally unique, just unique on the local network.
- throw0101d 3y agoOfficial assignments are at: * https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-address-space.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-add... Currently all public addresses are being assigned out of 2000::/3. The following are reserved for future (public?) use: 4000::/3, 6000::/3, 8000::/3, a000::/3, c000::/3. Everything that starts with "f" is a special case, so the vast (vast) majority of address space is cleaved off.