[498] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Re: CONFIG_INET_SNARL: What for?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Wed Jun 14 18:00:36 1995
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 20:43:58 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: shields@tembel.org, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9506141309.aa00659@cs.nrl.navy.mil> from "Craig Metz" at Jun 14, 95 08:09:36 am
> >It still doesn't work, because in the future blocks will be assigned from
> >"class A" space.
>
> Is this postulation, assumption, or known fact?
More formally, then, "IETF working groups are experimenting with carving
up class A's into smaller units as a pre-IPv6 solution to the problem
of IP address scarcity."
Meanwhile in the opposite direction, blocks of class C's *are now*
being handed out where formerly you would have received a B.
SNARL is a broken implementation, because of this.
> But this is somewhat irrelevant, anyway. The whole concept of a
> single-homed host knowing what networks are "at your site" or not is FUBAR.
Agreed.
> >ifconfig knows
> >the correct netmask and that's what should be used.
I apologize for this sentence, which didn't make sense.
--
Shields.
