On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:14:17 CDT, Dan Becker said: > I have another question. Would moving the TCP stack to base 32 double > traffic ? > We have enough alphanumeric characters to do so. Perhaps a designation > of 1x000 instead of 0x000 to define the difference in base 32 to base > 16 respectively. Umm.. That doesn't actually work. For instance - in binary, one of the addresses of this laptop is 128.173.14.107. First, let's look at it in binary: 1000 0000 1010 1101 0000 1101 0011 1011 Representing that in base 16, you get 80 AD 0E 6B. Representing it in base 32 is still going to get you that same exact sequence of 32 bits on the wire. You may wish to read RFC791, especially section 3.1, which goes into great detail about the on-the-wire format of the bits. http://www.ietf.org/rfcs/rfc791.txt
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