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From: clw@MERIT.EDU (Chris Weider)
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Subject: re: Reply to Ethernet Address Uniqueness...
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Date: 10 Oct 90 14:29:26 GMT
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In a recent message (10/5), Selden E. Ball, Jr. states that:
>Of course, the fact that DECnet addresses are limited to 16 bits
>means that larger networks are limited to a maximum of about 64K
>systems. My guess is that there are fewer than a dozen networks
>for which this causes problems.
I think this estimate is conservative. :)

On CICNet, we've had to jerry-rig our routers to get a true heirarchical
DECNet architechture; I suspect that a lot of other regionals have had to also.
I'm eagerly awaiting DECnet Phase 5.
Chris Weider
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