On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Jerry Cloe <je...@jtcloe.net> wrote: > Several years ago I remember seeing a mathematical justification for it, > and I remember thinking at the time it made a lot of sense, but now I can't > find it. >
Hi Jerry, If there's special ASIC-friendly math here, beyond what was later generalized with CIDR, it's not obvious. 10.0: 0000 1010 0000 0000 172.16: 1010 1100 0001 0000 172.31: 1010 1100 0001 1111 192.168: 1100 0000 1010 1000 AFAIK, it was simply one range each from classes A, B and C. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
