Re: CIDR prefixes

Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com> Fri, 15 November 1996 18:38 UTC

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:28:14 -0500
To: Rick Ervin <rervin@dnanet.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: CIDR prefixes
Cc: cidrd@iepg.org

See:

 RFC-1878

- paul

At 08:32 AM 11/15/96 +0000, Rick Ervin wrote:

>To CIDR:
>
>Has anyone taken the CIDR prefix table, and converted it to the appropriate
>subnet mask?
>
>I'm having a devil of a time with this, and it would sure be nice if there
>was a table (such as the Class C Subnetting sheet that I have) that would
>look something like this:
>
>CIDR Prefix     # of former class C nets        Appropriate Subnet Mask 
>/24                     1                       255.255.255.0
>etc., etc.
>
>This would sure make it easy for a dummy like me to set up routers that are
>using the CIDR scheme, as I am only clear on the old Subnet Mask way of
>doing things.
>
>Anyway, if there is such an animal, I would appreciate knowing where to get
>it.  Otherwise, I guess I'll have to sit down and wrestle with creating this
>list myself.
>
>Thank you for your time.
>
>Rick Ervin
>DNA
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