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IPv4 address length technical design
- Subject: IPv4 address length technical design
- From: rs at seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:17:11 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Chris Campbell's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:13:54 +0100")
- References: <[email protected]>
Chris Campbell <chris at ctcampbell.com> writes:
> Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the choice of 32 bits for an IPv4 address?
>
> Cheers.
8 bit host identifiers had proven to be too short... :)
-r