The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...

Thu Aug 26 01:16:59 UTC 1999

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