On 2/21/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:18:10PM -0800:
> John Oliver wrote:
> >I remember when I was completely mystified by subnetting. IIRC, what
> >tipped me over the edge and made it the most obvious thing in the world
> >was "Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours" by SAMS Publishing, I think it
> >was.
>
> I think subnetting might be more easily understood if we did not
> represent IP's in decimal. Not representing them in hex (like ipv6)
> turned out to be a big mistake.
I disagree. Eight hex digits are harder to keep track of than
four numbers. It's not like an ability to think in hex is a
frequently beneficial ability for most people.
Those "four numbers" are up to 12 decimal digits. Is 192.168.001.010
any easier than c0.a8.01.0a ? Or for that matter, 300.250.001.012 ?
300.250 seems especially neat to us unreconstructed octal types.
carl
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