[AFS3-std] Re: Encoding IPvN addresses

[Andrew Deason]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:43:05 -0500
Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

> > Actually, this made me realize, if you do encode multiple addresses
> > in one address structure, you can make this more efficient for
> > larger numbers of a addresses. That is, instead of having one IP
> > address per structure, if you just have multiple addresses in the
> > e.g. IPv4 opaque, you don't need to repeat the "IPv4 address type"
> > int every time. That would almost always save some space, since we'd
> > almost always be dealing with lists of addresses of the same type
> > (or two types).
> 
> No, in fact, I expect we'll be dealing with lists of addresses of
> mixed type, like "all of the addresses of this fileserver that's
> registered in the VLDB".

And wouldn't most cases involve more addresses than address types? e.g.
4 IPv4 addresses, and 4 IPv6 addresses?

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Andrew Deason
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