Re: Classless Inter-domain Routing

[Padmaparna Haldar <haldar@isi.edu>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Cheng Tak Cheung (CE) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm going to classless inter-domain routing protocol (CIDR) in ns.
> In CIDR, IP prefixes are represented by an address and a prefix length.
> However, there's no such addressing format in ns. The most likely thing is
> the hierarchical addressing format but it still lacks the prefix
> length.
> 	Could anyone give me some suggestions? I should develop new
> Node and Address class or I have missed something?

Maybe you could add the prefix length as an instance variable of class
HierNode (having a hier address). 
class Address defines the global address space and not the individual node
addresses and hence doesn't seem to help in this case. 

--Padma.
> 
> 	Thank you!
> 
> Cheng Tak Cheung
> 

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Padmaparna Haldar