[ipv6-ops] Re: So why is "IPv4 with longer addresses" a problem anyway?

[Sam Wilson]

On 27 May 2010, at 01:01, Fred Baker wrote:

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> On May 26, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
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>> IMHO, if the Internet was running IPX (32 bit network number, 48  
>> bit node address), we'd still be running it, and wouldn't now have  
>> the problem of running out of addresses.
>
> well, yes, but we might have some issues with route scaling. IPX  
> enumerates LANs, not edge networks or the ISPs that serve them.

In the traditional Novell IPX architecture IPX also enumerates  
servers, since each one has its own unique internal network number.  
Having been slightly involved in a plan to build a nationwide IPX  
service in UK Academia I can attest that it really wasn't a very easy  
protocol to scale.

Sam

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