[113677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Apr 18 03:01:49 2009
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
to: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:08:04 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:01:37 +0000
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> From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:08:04 +0000
> ...
> i should answer something said earlier: yes there's only 14 bits of tag and
> yes 2**14 is 4096. in the sparsest and most wasteful allocation scheme,
> tags would be assigned 7:7 so there'd be a max of 64 peers.
i meant of course 12 bits, that 2**12 is 4096, and 6:6. apologies for slop.