Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: To Subnet or not to subnet?
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.174604.28611@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <207@tots.UUCP> <1991Jan7.173554.11434@zoo.toronto.edu> <ayylbj.4d@wang.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 1991 17:46:04 GMT

In article <ayylbj.4d@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>> In the long run, it would probably be best
>> for you to get a class-B network number -- sometimes easier said than done,
>> alas -- and subnet it.
>
>Why easier said than done?  Are class B addresses being rationed?

Not having tried it myself, I can't testify in detail, but my understanding
is that getting a class B can be a fair bit more difficult than getting a
handful of class Cs.
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