Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Vijay Gill]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> > The problem is that we (as a profession) don't know
> > how to do that.  We have to make routing scale, and
> > that demands aggregation, which in turn demands
> > structured addresses.
> 
> The telephone company figured out how to avoid problems decades ago.  Why
> the computer industry has to rediscover things the hard way mystifies me.

Oh god, not this argument again.

This is the circuit vs connectionless debate.  I am sure if you do a
search on Kleinrock and Mills in open literature, you will find all sorts
of reasonings behind why this divide exists.

To grossly oversimplify things, the phone systems do a relatively slow
setup and once it is set up, let it stay till it is done and then tear it
down.  There isn't a phone company that does setups and teardowns (if I
may stretch the term) at a rate that can match the connections initiated
and torn down involving tcp/ip for http alone that pass through a core
router in any promising local ISP.

See ATM to the desktop.

/vijay