Subnetting Practices

[Roland Dobbins]

On Jul 15, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

> if it's "so many addresses that network administators do not need  
> to worry about
> network size" it's large enough that a simplistic implementation  
> will run
> into problems.  And then it doesn't matter whether you have 2^10 or
> 2^64 unused addresses on the link.

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment - what to do about it,  
especially on software platforms, is an interesting question.

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