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

William Pitcock nenolod at systeminplace.net
Sat Jul 24 20:17:47 UTC 2010


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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