nelson@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (Russell Nelson) (12/20/87)
As far as I can tell, subnetting is a generalization of the A, B, and C class concept. Can someone explain this as sweetly as the recent paper on gateways versus routers did? Even if you can't do as good a job, I'd still like to know :-). -russ
wunder@HPCEA.CE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (12/22/87)
The best explanation of subnets is probably in RFC-917, Jeff Mogul's original proposal for the now-standard scheme. That RFC includes some case studies and explanations which were cut when it was edited into RFC-950. The additional material explains the tradeoffs in the design. wunder