[131061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Wed Oct 20 00:24:28 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:54:18 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
In-Reply-To: <877hhehqxp.fsf@oban.berlin.quux.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200
Jens Link <lists@quux.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
Under Linux, ifconfig is probably deprecated, and just being left
around for people who're used to it. iproute2 a.k.a. the 'ip' utility
is the way to access/configure far more of the IP stack settings under
linux.
Regards,
Mark.
