[181664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 30 13:24:44 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5592CBC5.6060209@satchell.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:24:34 -0700
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 30, 2015, at 10:03 , Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 06/30/2015 07:28 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>> There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX,
>> DECnet, Appletalk, etc, but either they're not connected to the
>> 'Internet', or their traffic passes through other devices that
>> encapsulate and de-encapsulate it in IP to allow it to be =
transported.
>=20
> For the young (and the young at heart) those "other devices" were =
known as "bridges" back in the day.
Not all of them=85 Some of them were =93gateways=94 and occasionally =
you=92d even encounter a =93proxy=94.
Owen
