20 Sep
2012
20 Sep
'12
5:57 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:29 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
The 1/4 inch patty holds all the IPv4 LANs whose IPv4 capacity I'm calling 2^28. IPv6's in principle has 2^64 LANs, so an increase of 2^36 LANs. Patty was 1/4 inch, so our IPv6 patty is 2^32 inches or about 10 billionths of a lightyear. 68,000 miles, a little over a quarter of the distance to the moon.
2^34, my bad. So you get a full moon burger out of it. -Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004