On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:40:47AM -0700, Robert Donovan wrote: > Because back when the Internet was first developed the PC didn't exist, > the Internet was used mostly by Physicists, computer scientists, > government agencies, and large corporations. Nobody thought that using > an entire block of Class A addresses would be a big deal. The price of > thinking small. As I understand it from my former CCNA instructor, the > reason they chose to reserve a part of the normal IP space for testing > was so that the test block would behave exactly as the rest of the IP > address space did, avoiding the need for a separate set of rules and > protocols for testing IP addressing and subnetting. I have not been able > to verify this. >
Excellent thinking on their part, say I. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
