Realistic number of hosts for a /64 subnet?

[WILSON Sam]

> On 13 May 2019, at 06:20, Philip Loenneker <Philip.Loenneker at tasmanet.com.au> wrote:
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> To be sure, you could always put your phone system on the same network segment too...
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> Back to the original discussion, it's worth keeping in mind that individual devices can and do have multiple IPv6 addresses, so the IPv6 utilisation vs the number of devices on the layer 2 segment could vary significantly. So if you want to know how many devices are actually on a network segment, you would want to check MAC address tables or filter for unique MAC addresses within the ARP table rather than a ping sweep or similar.

Except those nasty security people are now allowing systems to randomise their MAC addresses.  I'm sure some people's Life Goal is to make life as difficult as possible for us network operators.

Sam

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