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Re: 214/8 and 215/8
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 23:48:07 -0500
On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:05:14 +1000, Philip Smith said:
What, in March 1998 when the exchange was made?? Which product for example? (It may not have been a Cisco default, but as far as I know everything has been classless supporting since at least 1993.)
It wasn't THAT many years ago that the Interop teams had T-shirts that said "Yes, the subnet mask really IS 255.255.252.0". A co-worker of mine who was involved wit the NOC team kept telling unhappy people "and next year the subnet mask will be 255.255.250.0". Also, remember when DNS came about, and when HOSTS.TXT finally went away. The mere fact that Cisco *sold* a router that did classless right in 1993 doesn't mean there was 100% deployment of same by 1996, or that it then took another year to renumber, and then another year to decide it really WAS time to give the old /8s back.... Change can be quite glacial in some parts of the network. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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- Re: 214/8 and 215/8, (continued)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 Eliot Lear (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 Simon Lyall (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 bmanning (Nov 01)
- RE: 214/8 and 215/8 Daniel Golding (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 bmanning (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 bmanning (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 Philip Smith (Nov 01)
- Re: 214/8 and 215/8 Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 01)