[86399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: classful routes redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Nov 2 22:06:51 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:04:22 -1000
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I was pretty much willing to 'accept' the listing as bill/randy
> had laid it out (accept the wording i suppose)
actually, bill and i disagreed. this is not unusual :-)
>> On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:51 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>>> class A == /32
>>> class B == /48
>>> class C == /56
>>> hostroute == /64
and i:
>> I have to admit that I'm guilty of using the phrase "class C"
>> more or less interchangably with "/24" - I suspect a lot of us
>> still do that...
> well, now you can do it for /64s
> and class B can be /48s (or is it /56s?)
> and class A can be /32s
as, in the truely classful days, a lan was a C == /24, i'll
stick to my guns for the moment that a new C is a /64 and so
forth.
as there is no emoticon for sarcasm, the naive should know
that i (and maybe bill) draw this comparison to point out
that, by codifying such boundaries in technology and policy,
we're making the same old mistakes again.
randy
