On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:45:19 EDT, der Mouse said: > (Actually, for a while I was using a netmask of 0xffffffd8 for my house > LAN. One of the things I dislike about IPv6 is the desupport for > noncontiguous netmasks - I can understand it, but I don't like it.)
Many moons ago, when the concept of subnetting on non-octet boundaries was still relatively new, the guys at Interop decided to carve up the show network... differently (partly for technical reasons, and partly because at that time it still had some "shootout" aspects and they wanted to see who whinged). And the tech team had t-shirts that said "Yes, the subnet mask really *is* 255.255.252.0". Anybody who whined about it was told "And next year it will be 255.255.250.0" at which point the whining converted to horrified panic at a rate directly proportional to the speed the guy could convert 250 to binary.. ;)
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