Issues with level3?

joel jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Tue Jan 15 18:13:06 UTC 2013


On 1/15/13 10:04 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 1/15/13 9:31 AM, Bruce H McIntosh wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 17:23 +0000, Warren Bailey wrote:
>>>> I still call a /24 a class c too.. :/ lol
>>> More efficient that way - "class c" uses fewer syllables than
>>> "slash
>>> twenty four" :-)
>>>
>> You realize that class-c address space was only found within 192/8
>> e.g.
>> if you print it in hex, C0000000. so not only is it historically
>> irrelevant but you're using it wrong anyway.
> But, class B is not B0000000 and A is not A0000000, so is that actually true, or just a coincidence?
yeah /3 not /8

class-a is the first half of the address space
class-b is the next 1/4
...
> Class C was actually 192.0.0.0-223.255.255.255 (192.0.0.0/3)
>
> -Randy
>





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