On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:46:55PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> The expectation was that those /8s would be subnetted into vast arrays of
> "Class C" sized chunks and that subnets within a given /8 all had to be the
> same size (this used to be necessary to keep RIP happy and every machine
> participating in RIP routing had to have an /etc/netmasks (or equivalent)
> table that tracked "THE" subnet mask for each natural prefix).
er, again, not true. the space was originally, net/host - the mantra
was "bridge where
you can, route when you must" - there were expected to be a few
networks with millions
of hosts within each broadcast domain. (anyone else remember the ARP
storms of the
1970s/1980s?)
routing came into its own later, along with classful addressing.
> Owen
>
--bill
