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Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:01:48 -0700
On 10/19/10 9:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 Jens Link <lists () quux de> wrote:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu writes:You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins?Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by a reference to 213/8 because it's in Class-C space?Don't get me wrong. I like the idea. Especially after the discussion I had with someone this afternoon.And "Cisco is still teaching it" is *not* an excuseWindows and Linux ifconfig are still using it. Enter a Class-A/B/C address and take a look at the mask they suggest.
Of course ifconfig will also happily take whatever mask you feed it in your choice of notation so it's not exactly a bronze age tool.
Under Linux, ifconfig is probably deprecated, and just being left around for people who're used to it. iproute2 a.k.a. the 'ip' utility is the way to access/configure far more of the IP stack settings under linux. Regards, Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA, (continued)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA David Freedman (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Matthew Walster (Oct 19)
- RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA John van Oppen (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Kevin Stange (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Julien Goodwin (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA gordon b slater (Oct 19)
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- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Matthew Walster (Oct 20)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Jens Link (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Mark Smith (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Joel Jaeggli (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) bmanning (Oct 19)
- RE: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) George Bonser (Oct 19)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) Owen DeLong (Oct 20)
- RE: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) George Bonser (Oct 20)
- RE: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) George Bonser (Oct 20)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) Owen DeLong (Oct 20)
- RE: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) George Bonser (Oct 20)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) Ray Soucy (Oct 21)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) bmanning (Oct 21)
- Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :) Michael Dillon (Oct 21)