On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:57:49 EDT, "Book, Robert"
<Robert(_dot_)BookIII(_at_)cwusa(_dot_)com> said:
Vinton's idea has much merit. A scheme to allocate blocks of addresses to
manufacturers would be much easier to support than an organization
attempting to process individual email requests, or CGI scripted forms from
a webpage, or a world-wide DHCP server for Amana ( and one for Maytag, etc.)
to register a refrigerator. And easier administration should translate into
You don't want to assign network addresses on a per-manufacturer basis.
Network addresses have to be aggregable.
That's why we have ARP because MAC addresses on an Ehternet are assigned
per manufacturer. But that's OK, because IPv6 has ARP ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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