A slight call to order (Re: Internic address allocation policy )
George Herbert
gherbert at crl.com
Mon Mar 20 19:30:29 UTC 1995
Paul writes:
>Second, I've seen Karl and now Alan misuse a term. I'll pick on Alan since his
>message is right in front of me, but the complaint is general (sorry Alan!):
That was me, actually.
>> Taking a relatively small chunk of the remaining address space
>> (say, 210.*.*.*) gives us 64k addresses to hand out in convenient
>
>That's 16M addresses, not 64K addresses. We should not equivocate "addresses"
>and "Class C networks". 210.*.*.* has 2^24 (minus subnet zero and broadcast
>lossage) addresses -- 16M. 210.*.*.* has 2^16 "Class C networks" -- 64K. We
>must not assume that every customer will get a Class C -- many will get just a
>subnet since they will only have a handful of hosts. I know of several
>providers who are chopping things up on nybble boundaries (16 hosts/net, or
>actually 14 with the subnet zero and broadcast taken out).
I slipped. It's 64k class C networks. I know better, but yesterday was
a long day.
If all the router vendors supported nybble-sized routing, things would be
a lot easier for providers. If there was an easy named db syntax to fix
in-addr mapping syntax for nybble-sized routing, things would be a lot
easier for providers. Paul can perhaps fix one of these issues (in his
copious spare time? 8-), the other one is a more general problem.
-george william herbert
gherbert at crl.com
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