[131047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jens Link)
Tue Oct 19 16:25:43 2010
From: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200
In-Reply-To: <80879.1287493941@localhost> (Valdis Kletnieks's message of "Tue,
19 Oct 2010 09:12:21 -0400")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@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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