Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?2000-08-11 07:50:03Anthony Atkielski wrote: The problem is that we (as a profession) don't know how to do that. We have to make routing scale, and that demands aggregation, which in turn demands structured addresses.The telephone company figured out how to avoid problems decades ago. Why the computer industry has to rediscover things the hard way mystifies me. The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds to resolve an address into a route. The Internet has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.
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