How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by Dylan16807 on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:50PM (#39974900)

If you had to deal with a hundred million different kinds of dialing software, that method wouldn't work out so well.

> If we could get a five byte address written in hex it would be somewhat user friendly.

For local addresses, you can use fec0::zzzz.

Do you need to memorize or hand-type global addresses very often?

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by mixmastamyk on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:01PM (#39974986)

> that method wouldn't work out so well

How well did IPv6 turn out by that criteria?

> memorize or hand-type

We read things many more times than we type them. Yes, gibberish at 4x the length is substantially harder to deal with. I do write addresses occasionally and with IP4 it is at least possible, if not desirable.

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by Dylan16807 on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:25PM (#39975127)

> How well did IPv6 turn out by that criteria?

About the same. So it's good we made it big for the future.

> Yes, gibberish at 4x the length is substantially harder to deal with.

I find copying and pasting to be pretty easy, and if you're looking at your own machines you can organize them all with the last 4 characters.

I don't have to compare random internet servers very often.

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