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Re: ISP customer assignments

  • From: Nick Hilliard
  • Date: Mon Oct 05 12:20:41 2009 
On 05/10/2009 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote:

So a customer with a single PC hooked up to their broad-band connection
would be given 2^64 addresses?

I realize that this is future proofing, but OMG! That’s the IPv4
Internet^2 for a single device!

No, for a single LAN.


Am I still seeing/reading/understanding this correctly?
more-or-less. Can I suggest you read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

Think of ipv6 not as 128 bits of address space, but more as a addressing system with a globally unique host part and 2^64 possible subnets. In this respect it's substantially different to ipv4.

Nick




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