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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: is there a need for class A addresses?
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Date: 27 Oct 88 19:33:26 GMT
References: <8810241542.AA07439@KAUAI.MCL.UNISYS.COM> <5857@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
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In article <5857@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@vdsvax (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>Well, If you expect to have the number of machines a company like GE 
>expects, there is some advantage to getting a single block of numbers
>and assigning the network numbers from one organization.

You don't need a class A network for this.  You could get a whole
bunch of class B or C networks, and then hand them out as departments
set up new networks.  At Thinking Machine we received about ten class
C networks, and we use about half of them so far for our various
internal networks.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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