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> Fixed-length addresses are necessary for scaling. Worth bearing in mind SNMP agent operations are all done in s/w and usually dont have any other restrictions other than CPU/RAM Dave. Note that IPv6 causes > some scaling issues for a lot of current hardware (7600/6500 need two > passes to route an IPv6 packet, whereas IPv4 needs only one). I suspect > that a world with variable(arbitrary?)-length addressing would be having > many more capacity scaling issues than we now are :) > > adam. > > > - -- David Freedman Group Network Engineering [email protected] Tel +44 (0) 20 7685 8000 Claranet Group 21 Southampton Row London - WC1B 5HA - UK http://www.claranet.com Company Registration: 3152737 - Place of registration: England All the information contained within this electronic message from Claranet Ltd is covered by the disclaimer at http://www.claranet.co.uk/disclaimer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkybd/4ACgkQtFWeqpgEZrK0tgCeKJhQMScEtgOxQtAqQFcWDvDa Uj0AoKW3Y6F2iNT56NEX9BntIk3RToIe =aXtn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
