Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Anthony Atkielski]

> Let me try and say this kindly (since after it is
> pointed out several hundred times it gets quite
> frustrating).  If you don't see the processing
> requirements then you have *no* understanding of how
> routing works.

You need not go to great pains to be "kind" about it.  This is a pretty
standard preamble to a post that essentially means "I disagree."

> The *first* function is to calculate that forwarding
> table used above.  This is the place that processing
> power is needed.  On busy routers this calculation can
> be necessary hundreds of times a second.  The more
> routes the larger the process of recalculating the
> forwarding table when a change *anywhere* in the
> topology occurs.

I wonder how human beings manage to route their cars from one point to
another, given how much more slowly they process things than do routers.