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Re: Subnetting Class C IP networks

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From: Marco S Hyman
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1994 22:17
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In article <CM8Kny.8Ho@eecs.nwu.edu>, H. Peter Anvin N9ITP <hpa@nwu.edu> wrote:
 > > PS:  Some implementations do permit one-bit subnet ids, but this is non-
 > > conformant.
 >
 > No, they are not.  Any application that does *not* permit a one-bit
 > subnet id is nonconformant.

RFC 1009 states "No subnet should be assigned the value 0 or -1 (all one
bits)".  See second paragraph of page 6. Has this been superseded by a later
RFC?

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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Re: Subnetting Class C IP networks
Date: 6 Mar 1994 14:17:24 -0800
Organization: Codewrights/Ascend Communications
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