Scott wrote: > >Classful routing is dead. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) has > >obsoleted it using variable length subnet masks which eliminates the > >need for classes of network numbers. > > that is your opinion.... which does not mean it is the only one.... nor does > not change the fact the Internet standards STILL use them as the standards > by which procedures are based on....
The original poster (Tom Pepper) wrote: > Say I have a range of IP addresses from 61.149.0.0 - 61.149.255.255 that I > want to deny access. Using classful routing would dictate blocking 61/8 which would be overkill since APNIC will allocate down to a /22 out of that address range (http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html). Then again, given the amount of spam coming from APNICs allocations perhaps he does want to do that :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Hangers on though you be friends be more humble when asking for seconds." Katsuhito Masaki (Grandfather); Tenchi Muyo Episode 7 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
