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Re: 33-Bit Addressing via ONE bit or TWO bits ? does NANOG care?


From: William Pitcock <nenolod () systeminplace net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:17:47 -0500

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:50 -0400, Steven King wrote:
I am very curious to see how this would play with networks that
wouldn't support such a technology. How would you ensure communication
between a network that supported 33-Bit addressing and one that doesn't?

33-bit is a fucking retarded choice for any addressing scheme as it's
neither byte nor nibble-aligned.  Infact, the 33rd bit would ensure that
an IPv4 header had to have 5 byte addresses.

William




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