From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 9 16:24:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA20692 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:24:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA20687 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.cdrom.com (pooh.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13755 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by pooh.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16157 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bradley@localhost) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA23307; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:16:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:16:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley Dunn X-Sender: bradley@ns2.harborcom.net To: Eddie Fry cc: isp@freebsd.com Subject: Re: IP Addressing In-Reply-To: <339C7CE3.4F7D@eaznet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Check out the CIDR FAQ at http://www.rain.net/faqs/cidr.faq.html It explains the prefix notation and provides a link to RFC 1878 which also explains it. Try not to get bogged down in "classes". They seemed like a good idea at the time but are now obsolete because "in the beginning" a global Internet with tens of thousands of routes was not in mind. pbd -- You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular. On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Eddie Fry wrote: > OK, call me ignorant. I asked my ISP for another class C address and > this is what he sent me. Can anybody explain this to me? My guess is > that it's a class B subnet and 4 class C's. Is that correct? > > 209.75.130/22(255.255.252)(4nets:209.75.224-227) - eaznet.com > > Thanks for your help! > Eddie >