Re: Stupid Question maybe?

[Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com>]

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I remember working on a SGI Unix workstation, where you simply could not
specify netmask. It was implicated by the class of address. This meant that
there were only three possible netmasks.

If that was how the first IP implementations started out, we had contiguous
netmasks at the beginning...