Re: Ip address question.....

The original designers of TCP/IP defined the IP Address to be 32 bits, long
way back in 1974.
(Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn)

Yes, they could have made it 48 or even 128 -:)

If you are really interested have a look at
http://rfc.sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc675.html

BR,
Tharak.

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Amit Joshi <amitkjoshi.cisco_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello All,
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> May be it is silly question here. I read the RFC791 to
> understand that why the IP address is 32 bits but there is no more
> information about it.
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> May be it is irrelevant question, but I would like to know why the IP
> address is 32 bits only why not 48 bits.
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> Look forward to your reply.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Amit Joshi
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