[ih] IANA
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Aug 29 11:20:58 PDT 2009
Before something which is not complete gets into the online record:
> On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> The IMPs were numbered from 1 to 63. The interfaces were numbered from
> 0 to 3.
That was of course in the original (32-bit?) header. In the new, 96-bit,
headers, the 'host' (interface) number was 8 bits (i.e. 0-255, with 252-255
being used for virtual 'fake' hosts in the IMP itself), and the IMP number
was 16 bits (0-65,535).
> The host address was the IMP address plus 64 times the interface.
That was for the 32-bit header I assume (I can't my old copy of 1822, only
the new one, which dropped the 32-bit header description). It was stored in
different ways in different headers; e.g. in the 96-bit header, the host was
the low byte of the third 16-bit word, and the IMP was in the fourth word.
Just for grins, in the IP header, the host was stored in the high byte of the
'rest', a 'logical host' (for Port Expanders) in the middle byte, and an
_8-bit_ IMP number in the low byte.
Noel
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