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| From | David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: network problem (fwd) |
| Date | 2021-10-07 04:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <D5r17-7oG-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <D5dUe-7WA-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <D5gS5-1fy-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <D5oZk-60n-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <D5p8Z-6j1-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <D5qRr-76i-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 12:53, Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/6/21, David wrote: > > But others here are vastly more knowledgeable than I am about > > networks, so additions or corrections are welcome, as always :) > It's Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR) now and network masks are > no longer supported [1]. If you take a look at RFC-950 [2], there is > no requirement that the network and sub-network bits of an address be > contiguous. 252.252.252.252 was a perfectly valid mask and yields the > same number of host bits (8) as a 255.255.255.0 mask does. > > Then along came CIDR and dis-contiguous network/subnet bits were prohibited. Ahhh, that's interesting, I didn't know about that aspect. Thank you for taking the time to explain clearly, with links. I really appreciate it!
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