[159575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issues with level3?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Tue Jan 15 13:14:41 2013
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:13:06 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
In-Reply-To: <131589561.1671.1358273073908.JavaMail.root@network1.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/15/13 10:04 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 1/15/13 9:31 AM, Bruce H McIntosh wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 17:23 +0000, Warren Bailey wrote:
>>>> I still call a /24 a class c too.. :/ lol
>>> More efficient that way - "class c" uses fewer syllables than
>>> "slash
>>> twenty four" :-)
>>>
>> You realize that class-c address space was only found within 192/8
>> e.g.
>> if you print it in hex, C0000000. so not only is it historically
>> irrelevant but you're using it wrong anyway.
> But, class B is not B0000000 and A is not A0000000, so is that actually true, or just a coincidence?
yeah /3 not /8
class-a is the first half of the address space
class-b is the next 1/4
...
> Class C was actually 192.0.0.0-223.255.255.255 (192.0.0.0/3)
>
> -Randy
>
