Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Wed Oct 20 04:24:18 UTC 2010

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200
Jens Link <lists at quux.de> wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks at 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 excuse 
> 
> Windows and Linux ifconfig are still using it. Enter a Class-A/B/C
> address and take a look at the mask they suggest.
> 

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.