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by HyperSane 1323 days ago
The last 64 bits of an IPv6 address are the host bits. I think it is stupid also, it should have been 16 or at most 24 bits for the hosts.
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The last 64 bits are derived from the MAC of the interface, which is quite a good idea (we probably won't see MAC exhausion because it's only two-level, and it's supposedly guaranteed unique). The stupidity lies eleswhere.

(Seriously. Just how fucking stupid do you have to be to replace a protocol whose addresses are too short, with one whose addresses are too short.)

Except MAC addresses are 48 bit.