[1603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Sat Jan 27 01:04:37 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:00:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@CIC.Net>
To: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
cc: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@scruz.net>, cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu,
gherbert@crl.com
In-Reply-To: <199601270551.AA22861@mail.crl.com>
On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, George Herbert wrote:
> I can't speak for Matthew, but many smallish ISPs have legacy /24
> allocations from using Livingston Portmasters and IRXes before they
> could do CIDR (I *think* they solved that problem, but I don't know
> for sure).
If that's the case, it's understandable. We had devil of a time trying to
get longer than /24s to work with cheap equipment some high schools
bought to do their internal networks.
Legacy equipment not being able to do that is something you can't do
anything about, but it's time vendors learned what CIDR is...
-dorian
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