On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we still refering to "class C"'s?
I submit that the comonly used definition of "Class C" has changed from "An address in the class C range" to "a block of addresses aligned on a /24 boundary". My guess of the real underlying reason is that saying "I need a full class C" or "I need a block of [4,8,16,32,64] addresses" seems to be a lot easier to say in a clear fashion over the phone or in person than "I need a slash-twentyfour". - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technologies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/