Karl J. Runge writes:
> I thought it had been worked out the 128 bit space could not be used
> "flatly", but rather some structure had to be imposed on it for routing
> efficiency (? or something... I can't remember what), and so only about
> ~1000 IP addresses per meter resulted.
Yeah, last time I checked they allocated the upper 64 bits for subnet
prefixes. I guess that these aren't variable-length anymore.
> Still a lot, but not nearly enough for covering molecules. Nanocomputers
> will likely have to be "firewalls" using private IP address space ;-)
So that would be nanoNAT -- right?
--kevin
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