25 Aug
1999
25 Aug
'99
9:16 p.m.
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