subnets

[BRADT JAMES E]

In reply to Dan Ehrlich's question on subnet size:

Dan,

GE has a class A number that we subnet using 14 bits for the subnet number
and 10 bits for the host number, thus giving us a mask of 255.255.252.0 or
FF.FF.FC.0.  It works fine on all the machines we have which includes sun,
apollo, symbolics, ultrix vax, excelan, wollongong, bridge, proteon, and
many others.

Jim Bradt
Network Administrator
GE - Corporate Research & Development Center
Schenectady, NY
bradt at ge-crd.arpa