Re: Severe Response Degradation

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

> > > well then, they're obviously clueless.
> >
> > Hasn't this come up here before?  I'm too lazy to go check the
> > archive, but I seem to remember a discussion of this topic.  IIRC,
> > the reason/excuse given (lame or not) was that they use equipment
> > that does not deal well/at all with CIDR or VLSM or somesuch.  Or
> > am I thinking of someone else?
>
> Well, all of their gear is Cisco. Last I checked, I think Cisco was OK
> with CIDR and VLSM, and even unnumbered links.

perhaps they need to be told about "ip classless"?

> As for the cluelessness statements, my take is that they've got some
> very clueful people, and some very clueless people. They've also got the
> inertia of a company many times their size. Perhaps that's appropriate,
> though, as they are now owned, at least in part, by AT&T (via the TCI
> deal).

no offense to the clueful then.  the clueless won't notice.  :)

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