-----Original Message----- From: Scott Francis [mailto:darkuncle@darkuncle.net] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:56 AM To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net said:
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.
have a look at Designing Addressing Architectures for Routing and Switching by Howard Berkowitz. You'll find analogies between IP addressing and the Ming dynasty. Irwin