[24974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Mathematical Reality of IP Addressin in IPv4...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Aug 26 13:24:43 1999
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: forrestc@iMach.com (Forrest W. Christian)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: alex@Relcom.EU.net (Alex P. Rudnev),
craig@seamless.kludge.net (Craig A. Haney),
jcgreen@netins.net (Jon Green), jdfalk@cybernothing.org (J.D. Falk),
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990826093454.4772A-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> from "Forrest W. Christian" at Aug 26, 1999 10:05:28 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> What this proposal appears to be proposing is to permit NON-CONTIGUOUS
> netmasks such as:
>
> 255.128.127.0
>
> Or, in binary:
>
> 1111111111 10000000 01111111 00000000
>
> Thus, the network number would actually consist of all 8 bits of octet
> one, the first bit of octet two, the last 7 bits of octet 3 and none of
> octed four.
>
Non-contigious masks were allowed up until the CIDR era... :)
--bill
