On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 03:04:42PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Can't speak t the ASICs, but CIDR existed, even if your vendor was behind the > times and still calling stuff class A/B/C. (Such nonsense persisted well into > this century). Check the dates...
The concept of using a number-of-bits to describe what is now called CIDR existed as early as 1987: http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8706.mm.www/0011.html - Brian
