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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:02:33 +0200 (EET)
From:      mika ruohotie <bsdsec@shadows.aeon.net>
To:        black@squid.gage.com (Ben Black)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewall and FreeBSD CIDR
Message-ID:  <199701161102.NAA22995@shadows.aeon.net>
In-Reply-To: <9701151714.AA29561@squid.gage.com> from Ben Black at "Jan 15, 97 11:14:16 am"

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> CIDR has nothing to do with this.  the term for what you are doing is  
> subnetting.  CIDR is the aggregation of large blocks of class C networks to  
> reduce routing table size.

actually, CIDR number can point to a subnet of C-class too... and it can
be non C-class also... as rfc1878 says...

/25 - /31 (yes, yes, /32 too) are subnets, /1 - /8 As, /9 - /16 Bs, and
between those (/17 - /24) full Cs

but we knew it... =)

> b3n


mickey



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