Question about IPAM tools for v6

[Sam Wilson]

On 3 Feb 2014, at 11:58, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 3 Feb 2014, at 11:32, Sam Wilson <Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On 3 Feb 2014, at 11:17, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
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>>> On 03/02/2014 11:11, Sam Wilson wrote:
>>>> Let me de-lurk and make the obvious point that using standard Ethernet
>>>> addressing would limit the number of nodes on a single link to 2^47, and
>>>> that would require every unicast address assigned to every possible
>>>> vendor.  Using just the Locally Administered addresses would limit you
>>>> to 2^46.
>>> 
>>> it bothers me that I can't find any switch with 2^46 ports.
>>> 
>>> Damned vendors.
>> 
>> 
>> The back of my envelope says that with my vendor of choice and a 4-deep tree (7-hop old-style STP limit) of 384-port switches I can't get more than about 2^34 edge ports.  Very disappointing.  That would need approximately 57 million routers, though, and 170 GW of electrical power, not counting the cooling requirements.  
> 
> That's a lot of hamsters.


Turns out it's more hamsters than we have in the UK.  <http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/>

Sam

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