On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:53:54AM -0300, A.B. Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > Lots of traffic recently about 64 bits being too short or too long. > > What about mac addresses? Aren't they close to exhaustion? Should be. > Or it is assumed that mac addresses are being widely reused throughout > the world? All those low cost switches and wifi adapters DO use unique > mac addresses?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address The IEEE expects the MAC-48 space to be exhausted no sooner than the year 2100[3]; EUI-64s are not expected to run out in the foreseeable future. -- Richard A Steenbergen <r...@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
