Tag
address-allocation
- Aug 16, 2025 CIDR Aggregation and the Reasons It Cannot Fully Summarize How prefix length replaced address classes, which blocks can be merged into one announcement, and why holes and multi-homing leave the table larger than the address plan suggests. networking
- Nov 19, 2024 NAT, Port Overloading, and the Address Exhaustion Boundary How one public address serves many private hosts through port translation, what the binding table must store, and which protocol assumptions a translator cannot preserve. computing history
- Nov 4, 2024 Classful Addressing, Subnets, and the Move to CIDR Why the fixed class A, B, and C boundaries wasted most of the IPv4 space, how subnetting borrowed host bits, and what prefix aggregation changed about routing. computing history