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[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios at cs.uni-bonn.de>]

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Subject: Re: What's 16 bits between friends?
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:16:04PM -0700, Christian Huitema wrote:

> That was, and still is, the official IEEE line. IEEE 802 is very
> concerned that 48 bit is not quite enough.

Let me add that IEEE1394 is using 64 bit addresses - and yes, it's in
occasional use here:

tiger# ifconfig fwip0
fwip0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:11:06:00:00:00:6a:21
	inet6 fe80::211:600:0:6a21%fwip0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

Regards,
	-is

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