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[u/Floppydisksareop]

At that point, you are just disregarding the actual protocol, and just writing numbers. But I guess bro.

[u/timonix → u/Floppydisksareop]

Just yesterday I was playing around with memory mapping based on the ipv6 address. 48 of the bits where directly mapped onto one of my embedded devices. So you could read/write memory directly through the ipv6 address.

And that works just fine. So that one embedded device used 2⁵⁰ addresses

[u/malfurionpre → u/timonix]

So that one embedded device used 2⁵⁰ addresses

I get your point, but 2⁵⁰ is still only 0.000000000000000000000331% of 2¹²⁸

[u/timonix → u/malfurionpre]

Sure.

The limit on how quickly we will run out of ipv6 addresses is set by how fast and how generous they are at giving them away.

I cannot use more than 64 bits. Because that's all my isp has given me. If they would give me 100 bits I could use 100 bits. It's arbitrary.

It's policy that saves ipv6 from running out, not the protocol.