NANOG Operational TTL Alert for 160-bit Headers (aka IPv4)

Sat Mar 3 23:25:41 UTC 2012

Someone get this man a Xanax!

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From: Guru NANOG <nanog.guru at gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: 2012 Mar, Sun, 4 00:01:04 GMT+00:00
Subject: NANOG Operational TTL Alert for 160-bit Headers (aka IPv4)

Common Misconception - IPv4 is Out of Address Space

NANOG Operational TTL Alert for 160-bit Headers (aka IPv4)

The 8-bit TTL field is reduced to 4-bits plus two 11 bits stuck at 1
for a long time

The new 8-bit fields are: SD11TTTT

Packets without the 11 will enter Deep Packet Inspection processing (slow)

SD are new Source and Destination Address bits set via the generic
AAAA 128-bit records

4+8+12+30+6 = 60 + 68 = 128

VRHL+111.T1.000+Port12+30+Frag6

T1 sets the TTL bits - Use T0 at your own risk - VRHL=0101=5

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