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Re: IP Subnet Management?

  • From: bill
  • Date: Wed Jan 14 21:11:55 2004 
> 
> 
> Hey everyone, I've been trying to come up with an
> algorithm to describe the assignment of IP subnets.
> I have something in a proof of concept form that
> will break a block of addresses into subnets at
> a user's request. The thing is that the assignments
> it makes are provably optimal. Within the limits
> you may place on an assignment, there will never
> be more than one empty subnet of any particular size.
> I am curious as to what other things I should try
> and put into this. Right now, if you request a /16 from
> a /8, the /16 is considered assigned and further
> changes within it are not possible. Would 'children'
> so to speak be useful for you? What would your ideas
> be? How have you tackled this problem?
> Feel free to respond off list if you'd like :-)
> 
> Appreciate your time!
> 
> Mike (sick of spreadsheets) Wiacek
> 

	have you looked at/seen RFC 1878?
	on ftp.isi.edu/pub/bill/tree-2.1.5.tar.gz 
	is a nifty tool.

--bill