[24966] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Haney)
Wed Aug 25 21:26:23 1999
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990825162227.00a89100@yosemite.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:16:59 -0400
To: Mike Bird <mgb@yosemite.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: "Craig A. Haney" <craig@seamless.kludge.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 16:22 -0700 1999/08/25, Mike Bird wrote:
>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.
yeah, then you'll need a minor adjustment to the routing table size when
corporations and providers want to change networks or multihome.
>Except for the problem that you need 32 extra bits to carry a mask or 5
>extra bits to carry the masklen.
nice try, next topic please.
-craig
