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> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:00:43 -0700 > From: "Jeff Shultz" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IP address fee?? > > > Possibly because that is what they are still teaching them as in > school? As much as I hate to interject this... CIDR is fairly new to me, but referring to a "Class C" address conveys some pretty specific information ... Similar to referring to 139.98/24. To *me*, Class C implies a specific address range (probably no longer needed) with specific masks, et al... Oh well, back to lurk mode... Regards, gregory Hicks > > Seriously... I'm not sure that the teachers I had for networking and > systems admin had ever heard of CIDR. > > The textbooks hadn't. It was a nice bump in the learning curve when I > hit the real world. > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 9/5/2002 at 1:48 PM Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote: > >> Shane, > >> There is a practice on that (At least here.). Generally > we > >> provide a Class C to our customers at no additional charge, but we > have > > > >Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we > still > >refering to "class C"'s? > > > >-- > >Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> > http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > >PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE > B6) > > > -- > Jeff Shultz > Network Support Technician > Willamette Valley Internet > 503-769-3331 (Stayton) > 503-390-7000 (Salem) > [email protected] > > ...most of us have as our claim to fame the ability to talk to > inanimate objects and convince them they want to listen to us. > -- Valdis Kletnieks in a.s.r > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3400 San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: [email protected] "The trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as one... the sky's the limit. "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff You can have it done good, fast, or cheap -- pick any two.
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