[52621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Mon Oct 7 12:57:49 2002
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:56:06 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net said:
> On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23,=20
> Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net> wrote:
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> > 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 =3D
> > be
> > pretty useful.
> > http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/technology/tech_paper.jsp?DOC_ID=3D3=
D135
> > http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf
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> It seems quite old and not very practical :
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> * 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=
=20
> right from the beginning.
Well, like I said ... it's been referenced since at least 2.7 (3 years ago =
or
more) and I'm not sure how applicable it may be. :) I'm pretty sure the pap=
er
was written before IPv6 was much more than a lab experiment. It _was_ useful
to me, but I was familiar with CIDR before I read the paper, so ...
For those with no prior experience in IP addressing, it can provide a nice
bit of historical background. While classful addressing may be passe, knowi=
ng
one's history never hurts.
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