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"public" in the sense of theoretically routable, yes, but most of them were firewalled off, so they might as well have been RFC1918 addresses for all the good i
by eric_the_read 9y ago
"public" in the sense of theoretically routable, yes, but most of them were firewalled off, so they might as well have been RFC1918 addresses for all the good it did you.
The worst part about getting 16/8 from Compaq was that it wasn't contiguous address space, so you couldn't use a single netmask for both. :(
- syncsynchalt 9y agoIt was contiguous, but didn't aggregate under a single bitmask. For example if it had been 14/8 and 15/8 (instead of 15/8 and 16/8) then they would have held the world's only /7.