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Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

  • From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
  • Date: Mon Oct 07 03:52:00 2002

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.