RE: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

[Bob Braden]

  *> 
  *> I can remember early TCP/IP implementations that used class A
  *> addressing only, with the host portion of the Enet MAC address as the
  *> host portion of the IP address - "because ARP is too hard" or
  *> something like that.  I think the first Suns did this.
  *> 
  *> --

Dick,

Right idea, wrong link layer. The low-order 24 bits of an IP address
was originally a 24-bit ARPANET (/Milnet/DDN) host address.

Bob Braden