-----Original Message----- From: Scott Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:56 AM To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, > Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since > > at least 2.7) a paper called "Understanding IP Addressing" that I found to = > > be > > pretty useful. > > http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/technology/tech_paper.jsp?DOC_ID=3D135 > > http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf > > It seems quite old and not very practical : > > * it never mentions RFC 1219, > * it mentions IPv6 in a few words, without any practical considerations, > * it explains the old classfull addressing first, instead of talking CIDR > right from the beginning. have a look at Designing Addressing Architectures for Routing and Switching by Howard Berkowitz. You'll find analogies between IP addressing and the Ming dynasty. Irwin
