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Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 18:40:02
In message <003b01c003c6$3ffe9230$0a00000a(_at_)contactdish>, "Anthony 
Atkielski" wr
ites:
The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds
to resolve an address into a route. The Internet
has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.

Build faster hardware.


We seem to be talking 5-6 orders of magnitude in speed here.  Even 
Moore's Law doesn't help in that range.

                --Steve Bellovin