I shall take up Kathy's suggestion and ask bigpond, will get back to wamug with the answer ;-0
Mac
On 03/05/2004, at 16:56, James Devenish wrote:

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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;



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