Userland PPP/PPTP tunneling problem

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Sun Apr 20 21:11:40 PDT 2003


On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:52, Brett Glass wrote:
> 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.)

Your understanding is correct, Microsoft's isn't.  No surprise there, on 
either side.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com



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