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| liquid253 2001-03-21, 7:58 am |
| I saw a couple of posts that said to know what the result of hierarchial (murdered spelling) address framework is. What the hell is this? | |
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| Well, i could not begin to explain to you what that is, could be because i am not sure. 
but it wasnt on my exam...not that you may not need to know it, but it was not on my exam | |
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| Hiya (not that I know much but..)err.. I think a hierarchical? address framework means for IP addressing and the like - class a, b & c addresses - they are hierarchical because they stem from class a addresses into class b, and then into class c. The benefits of this is that you have a lot of space for addresses - the flip-side is that it is wasteful with ip addresses as not all get used. Opposed to this is a flat scheme (non-hierarchical) such as mac addresses which simply work consecutively - it's benefits are the opposite of the other. This is not a good explanation - but someone here will be able to better...
HTH | |
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| Sorry - that was a bit confusing - hierarchical addressing need not apply to IP alone (just an example) basically what the question was probably asking was what are the benefits/problems of hierarchical (IP) addressing vs flat (mac) addressing schemes. | |
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| thanks M.B. I guess I knew what it meant, but the wording freaked me out! |
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