Re: The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...

["Craig A. Haney" <craig () seamless kludge net>]

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