[66500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Subnet Management?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill)
Wed Jan 14 21:10:05 2004
From: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
To: lists@iroot.net (Michael Wiacek)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:09:09 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040114194210.G67615@trinity.iroot.net> from "Michael Wiacek" at Jan 14, 2004 07:44:31 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> Hey everyone, I've been trying to come up with an
> algorithm to describe the assignment of IP subnets.
> I have something in a proof of concept form that
> will break a block of addresses into subnets at
> a user's request. The thing is that the assignments
> it makes are provably optimal. Within the limits
> you may place on an assignment, there will never
> be more than one empty subnet of any particular size.
> I am curious as to what other things I should try
> and put into this. Right now, if you request a /16 from
> a /8, the /16 is considered assigned and further
> changes within it are not possible. Would 'children'
> so to speak be useful for you? What would your ideas
> be? How have you tackled this problem?
> Feel free to respond off list if you'd like :-)
>
> Appreciate your time!
>
> Mike (sick of spreadsheets) Wiacek
>
have you looked at/seen RFC 1878?
on ftp.isi.edu/pub/bill/tree-2.1.5.tar.gz
is a nifty tool.
--bill
