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