Re: Host-based may be the way to go, but network controls areneccessary

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:

> > CIDR was a very good thing to do as we are essentially now solving this
> > problem 10 years later so it bought us 10 years.

> Eh, as far as I remember CIDR was more a way to buy us time from
> address shortage and lead to more efficient usage of the IPv4 address
> space.

As I understand it (but I wasn't around) new assignments were made from
class C space because class B space was about to deplete. However, this
meant people who would have used a /16 (class B) before would now maybe
use a /20 (16 class Cs) -> routing table explosion. CIDR was implemented
to handle that problem.

> It was never intended to solve the multihoming issue.

Before CIDR there was no multihoming issue.  :-)

Iljitsch