Subj : Re: Just how big is IPv6?
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Jay Harris
Date : Mon Dec 23 2024 09:12 pm

On 23 Dec 2024, Rob Swindell said the following...
 
 RS>  > Or even more magnificently, this means you can give every millimetre fr
 RS>  > one side of the universe to the opposite side of the universe in a stra
 RS>  > line about 3.6 billion IPv6 addresses... every... millimetre...
 RS> 
 RS> So what you're saying is that IPv6 was over-engineered. :-)

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"  -- Bill Gates*

"2^128 addresses ought to be enough for anybody"  -- The IPv6 engineers, probably


* Bill Gates denies making 1981 comment about limits of RAM needs, despite popular legend:
https://tinyurl.com/bdwnbhjy

.... 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)

.