[14351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whoa; the 3 network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Osborne)
Tue Dec 23 21:38:15 1997
From: Eric Osborne <osborne@notcom.com>
To: nanog@pigott.net (Randall Pigott)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:30:00 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, nanog@pigott.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971223210235.00b06b50@randall.net> from "Randall Pigott" at Dec 23, 97 09:02:35 pm
> How then can you justify needing more than a single Class-B, or at most two
> or three worldwide?
I recall seeing a comment about using the public Internet as private data
transfer. Since the smallest prefix you can advertise on the Internet is /24,
that breaks up the aforementioned Class B into 256 blocks. Given that GTE
(or any large corporation) is likely is divide its remote offices up in
headcounts of 254, there's room for inefficiency there. I could easily see
a use for _at least_ 4 Class B's, if not more.
eric
