ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Tue Jun 30 17:24:34 UTC 2015


> On Jun 30, 2015, at 10:03 , Stephen Satchell <list at satchell.net> wrote:
> 
> On 06/30/2015 07:28 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX,
>> DECnet, Appletalk, etc, but either they're not connected to the
>> 'Internet', or their traffic passes through other devices that
>> encapsulate and de-encapsulate it in IP to allow it to be transported.
> 
> For the young (and the young at heart) those "other devices" were known as "bridges" back in the day.

Not all of them… Some of them were “gateways” and occasionally you’d even encounter a “proxy”.

Owen




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