Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure out

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 06:42:09AM GMT, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > 
> > > Defaulting to a /8 netmask for 192.168.x.y does not make *any* sense ever.
> > 
> > Well, not in the last 30 years or so, anyway.
> 
> No, never ever did /8 make since on 192.*.*.*, that has always been
> class C address space.

I think what Poul-Henning meant is that 31 years ago, in 1993, classless
inter-domain routing (CIDR) was introduced by the IETF, and it rendered
"class"es of ip addresses obsoletes.

So, class C address spaces has been dead for 31 years :-)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold