classful routes redux
Christopher L. Morrow
christopher.morrow at mci.com
Thu Nov 3 02:16:16 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Fred Baker wrote:
>
> actually, no, I could compare a /48 to a class A.
>
(someone might already have asked this, but...) why /48? Perhaps it's the
convenience of it all, but I was pretty much willing to 'accept' the
listing as bill/randy had laid it out (accept the wording i suppose)
> On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:51 PM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > er.. would this be a poor characterization of the IPv6 addressing
> > architecture which is encouraged by the IETF and the various RIR
> > members?
> >
> > class A == /32
> > class B == /48
> > class C == /56
> > hostroute == /64
> >
> > (and just think of all that spam than can originate from all those
> > "loose" IP addresses in that /64 for your local SMTP server!!! Yummy)
> >
> > -- Oat Willie
>
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