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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!think.com!barmar
- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Extending IP-numbers
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 21:10:56 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <16p4l0INN6o3@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Aug17.152246.29952@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug17.152246.29952@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg) writes:
- >I heard some rumors about several proposals being already on the table
- >concerning extending the current 4-byte IP-addresses.
- >
- >Could anyone knowledgeable disclose some specifics about these proposals?
- >(Or some pointers on where to look for more info?)
-
- Try RFC 1347, "TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TUBA), A Simple Proposal
- for Internet Addressing and Routing". I don't think it's the only such
- proposal, but it's apparently the only one that's made it to the RFC stage.
-
- A related RFC is 1338, "Supernetting: An Address Assignment and Aggregation
- Strategy". It doesn't extend the 4-byte address space, but does suggest
- some ways to live with it a bit longer (e.g. treating contiguous ranges of
- class C addresses as a single network, to allow for networks too big for
- class C but not needing an entire class B, and to reduce the size of
- routing tables in the core gateways).
-
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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