[11830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [CISCO] directed-broadcast, ip classless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Aug 14 17:05:01 1997
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: rja@corp.home.net (Ran Atkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: curtis@anl.gov, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970814125022.ZM22080@borg.eos.home.net> from "Ran Atkinson" at Aug 14, 97 12:50:22 pm
>
> Personally, I haven't been screaming at anyone. I _have_ been
> told by cisco that they are reluctant to change the "ip classless"
> to be default. Stated reason is that folks prefer classful addressing.
> If cisco ISP folks can speak on the record about this matter to
> the NANOG list, it would be useful IMHO.
>
Yes. Insofar as reluctance, its the "principal of least
astonsihment" thingamabob.
- paul
