[157088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Oct 5 12:48:39 2012
Date: 5 Oct 2012 16:47:51 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <72A2F9AF18EC024C962A748EA6CF75B90ED2BA40@W8USSFJ204.ams.gblxint.com>
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In article <72A2F9AF18EC024C962A748EA6CF75B90ED2BA40@W8USSFJ204.ams.gblxint.com> you write:
>Wouldn't that implicate the routing system to have, in essence, one routing entry for every host on the network?
>
>That would be the moral equivalent to just dropping down to a global ethernet fabric to replace IP and using mac addresses for
>routing. I'll give you one guess as to how well that would work.
It works well for the 12 computers in my home office. Therefore it's
a solved problem and trivial to implement.
HTH, HAND, &c.
John
