Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:57:49 EDT, "Book, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  said:
> Vinton's idea has much merit. A scheme to allocate blocks of addresses to
> manufacturers would be much easier to support than an organization
> attempting to process individual email requests, or CGI scripted forms from
> a webpage, or a world-wide DHCP server for Amana ( and one for Maytag, etc.)
> to register a refrigerator. And easier administration should translate into

You don't want to assign network addresses on a per-manufacturer basis.
Network addresses have to be aggregable.

That's why we have ARP because MAC addresses on an Ehternet are assigned
per manufacturer.  But that's OK, because IPv6 has ARP ;)
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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