Hello Mike!
On Thu 12 Feb 1998 at 05:37 you wrote the following to Will Hargrave:
 MB> Actually, you can subnet these private address spaces any way you
 MB> choose.  There is certainly no reason you are limited to octet
 MB> boundaries.  For example, you could have a netmask of 255.255.255.128,
 MB> and your first two subnets would be 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.127 and
 MB> 192.168.0.128-192.168.0.255.  The whole point is that these addresses
 MB> are entirely private.
People are confused enough by subnetting as it is.
I take the view that if they don't know the reserved addresses, it's very 
unlikely that someone will want to bother with subnet intricacies ;-)
I certainly can't be bothered ATM, but I might be playing with Linux's IP 
Tunneling soon, so it may be useful.
 Will                                        
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