Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Tue Oct 19 20:24:02 UTC 2010

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.

Jens
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