[44057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 214/8 and 215/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Smith)
Thu Nov 1 21:07:12 2001
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To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
From: Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>
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At 17:12 01/11/2001 +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >
> > So I seem to be missing something that keeps me from understanding this --
> > why didn't they just turn off the /9 of mixed /16 and /24 space and
> > keep the two pre-existing historical class-As, which would have more
> > fully followed the BCPs?
> >
> > Sean.
> >
>
> legecy hardware/software. Fully classless kit was just becoming
> common at the time. (cisco did not support it across the product
> line)
What, in March 1998 when the exchange was made?? Which product for example?
(It may not have been a Cisco default, but as far as I know everything has
been classless supporting since at least 1993.)
philip
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