[24965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Bird)
Wed Aug 25 19:24:49 1999
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:22:27 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike Bird <mgb@yosemite.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990825115542.D9979@cybernothing.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
SUMMARY of
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-math-ipaddr-ipv4-00.txt
By distinguishing apparently identical IP addresses by using different
subnet masks one can increase the number of IP addresses distinguishable by
a 32-bit number to greater than 2^32.
Except for the problem that you need 32 extra bits to carry a mask or 5
extra bits to carry the masklen.
IETF should have waited until 2000/04/01 before posting this.
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