Hi, According to https://www.networkworld.com/article/3191503/mit-selling-8-million-coveted-ipv4-addresses-amazon-a-buyer.html
MIT has 2x^30 IPV6 addresses. That appears to imply that they have the equivalent of about 1 million 48 bit prefixes. What a waste, when you consider that a *single* 48 bit prefix would provide them with 65000+ subnets, each of which could support 2^64 hosts. No way they have that many students or even nanites that would require an IPV6 address. (Note that this assumes a 64 bit host address, which some software requires, but I think it's possible to subnet further into the host address if you really try. ;) This is precisely the sort of stupid greed that resulted in running out of IPv4 addresses in the first place. Given that they have 12 campuses, they could even make do with a single 60 bit prefix, which would allow them 16 subnets, one for each campus, and 4 to spare. There are only about 7 billion people on Earth, and not likely to be much more than 11 billion in the future. How many addresses does a person need anyway? Cloud storage:- Unsafe, Slow, Expensive ...pick any three.
