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on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:51:10PM +0800, Luke Brown wrote:
> Malcolm J McCallum wrote:
> >Hi wamuggers, can some guru enlighten me as to what the 'cpe' stands
> >for at the beginning of net work address?
> >TIA
>
> Customer Premise Equipment?
In answer to the original poster: 'cpe' has no technical meaning in the
Internet domain name service -- it is merely one of Telstra's naming
conventions for its own customers. Presumably Luke is correct, except:
In response to Luke's followup:
>From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
premise
n : a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a
conclusion can be drawn; [syn: {premiss}, {assumption}]
I point this out because some people use 'premise' when they mean 'premises':
>From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
premises
n : land and buildings together considered as a place of
business;
