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At 01:26 PM 4/17/2003, Bill Fumerola wrote:
  
>> I don't understand. Why is /24 more "natural" than /16?
>
>because that address is in class C space, not class B. read rfc791.

As I understand it, that portion of RFC791 was obsolete decades ago.
(Even if it weren't, you should be able to subdivide the
address space.)

--Brett