Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <003b01c003c6$3ffe9230$0a00000a@contactdish>, "Anthony Atkielski" wr
ites:
>> The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds
>> to resolve an address into a route. The Internet
>> has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.
>
>Build faster hardware.
>
>
We seem to be talking 5-6 orders of magnitude in speed here.  Even 
Moore's Law doesn't help in that range.

                --Steve Bellovin