Possibly because that is what they are still teaching them as in school?
Seriously... I'm not sure that the teachers I had for networking and systems admin had ever heard of CIDR. The textbooks hadn't. It was a nice bump in the learning curve when I hit the real world. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/5/2002 at 1:48 PM Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote: >> Shane, >> There is a practice on that (At least here.). Generally we >> provide a Class C to our customers at no additional charge, but we have > >Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we still >refering to "class C"'s? > >-- >Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras >PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) -- Jeff Shultz Network Support Technician Willamette Valley Internet 503-769-3331 (Stayton) 503-390-7000 (Salem) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...most of us have as our claim to fame the ability to talk to inanimate objects and convince them they want to listen to us. -- Valdis Kletnieks in a.s.r