[52607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Oct 7 03:50:41 2002
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <20021003192349.GL53306@darkuncle.net>
(Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>'s message of
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:23:49 PDT)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:49:28 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23,
Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net> wrote:
> Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since
> at least 2.7) a paper called "Understanding IP Addressing" that I found to =
> be
> pretty useful.
> http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/technology/tech_paper.jsp?DOC_ID=3D135
> http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf
It seems quite old and not very practical :
* it never mentions RFC 1219,
* it mentions IPv6 in a few words, without any practical considerations,
* it explains the old classfull addressing first, instead of talking CIDR
right from the beginning.
