On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:18:27 CDT, Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net> said: > What do you mean by IPv8 ? We're not sure, Jim - maybe if there was an actual protocol spec, we'd know. You might start by doing an RFC793-style packet header diagram. Oh, and while you're laying out header fields, make sure you understand subtleties like why the IPv6 headers have fixed-length fields on doubleword boundaries (hint - router manufacturers like ASICs) > Are you familiar with how IPv16 works ? The techniques outlined in the (recently expired) internet-draft draft-terrell-math-quant-new-para-redefi-bin-math-04.txt have proven to be quite challenging to implement in functional silicon or software. Therefore, you will have to find alternate means to deal with the 'version' field in the datagram header. Will the list management please consider doing something with Jim's posting privileges until such time as he exhibits either an ability to write a coherent paragraph on a network-related without mentioning IPv8, or sufficient understanding(*) of protocol design to explain the previous paragraph? -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech (*) it's not THAT challenging - most first graders have a sufficient grasp of mathematics to understand the equivalent problem in decimal notation...
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