Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Sorry to break in on this thread and being off-topic, but... > >>CIDR is 10 years old! Anyone still thinking in class A and class C > >>is probably still using COBOL too... sigh > > > >Excuse me, for butting in, but, all the > >documentation I have read on TCP/IP still > >refer to "Classes". > > I know - and I heard that they even teach it that way in Universities. > > Still, it's simply wrong. It's like assuming the sun revolves around > the earth simply traveling along a weird path (remember Keplers > equasions?). > > Good books and good professors do point that out. >
Don't networking configuration tools default to using the "Classes" for computing netmasks, unless they are specified? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
