On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 06:42:09AM GMT, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > > > > > Defaulting to a /8 netmask for 192.168.x.y does not make *any* sense ever. > > > > Well, not in the last 30 years or so, anyway. > > No, never ever did /8 make since on 192.*.*.*, that has always been > class C address space.
I think what Poul-Henning meant is that 31 years ago, in 1993, classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) was introduced by the IETF, and it rendered "class"es of ip addresses obsoletes. So, class C address spaces has been dead for 31 years :-) -- Mathieu Arnold
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