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Re: a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:24:25 +0000


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mike Leber wrote:

While there are not as many businesses and organizations as people on the
planet, as an exercise imagine 4 billion prefixes.

At the moment mobile IP is not implemented using the global routing
infrastructure, because it can't scale to 4 billion prefixes. But if it
*could* scale that well, mobile IP would be much simpler. One prefix per
device.

Tony.
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