begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:22:51PM -0800: > 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: [snip] > >> 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 ?
Actually, yes, because they're four numbers in my head, not 12 digits, or 8 digits. If we restrict ourselves to pronouncable hex digits, that would be different. Can I have 0xDEADBEEF and 0xCOEDBABE, please? > Or for that matter, 300.250.001.012 ? > 300.250 seems especially neat to us unreconstructed octal types. Heh. 0-377 as a range would probably work just fine. -- Hexvomit is very hard to read. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
