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Re: ipv6nd-02.txt & autoconfig

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To: Albert Manfredi <manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com>
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Subject: Re: ipv6nd-02.txt & autoconfig
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On Fri, 10 May 96 12:42:18 PDT Albert Manfredi wrote:

> > And how many ESIs shall we all burn into our adapters, bridges and routers?
>> How about 13? 42? 65536? 16777216?
>
> How about 256 would give you everything that lamented SEL byte would have
> provided?

Bert, are you proposing using 256 48-bit values to get the same thing you can
get with 256 8-bit values?  Doesn't seem a good use of address space to me
(or am I missing something here?).

 --- pete

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