Re: The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> What this proposal appears to be proposing is to permit NON-CONTIGUOUS
> netmasks such as:
>
>   255.128.127.0
>
> Or, in binary:
>
>  1111111111 10000000 01111111 00000000
>
> Thus, the network number would actually consist of all 8 bits of octet
> one, the first bit of octet two, the last 7 bits of octet 3 and none of
> octed four.

Non-contigious masks were allowed up until the CIDR era... :)

--bill