[ih] "Subnet"

[Vint Cerf]

to add to confusion, there was a "port expander" hack that Jim Mathis
and I cooked up that could also be seen as a form of subnetting but I
think the simplest observation is that "subnet" in the ARPANET era
referred to the collection of IMPs forming the transport backbone
while MAP's "NET' included the hosts, etc. The term "subnet" in the
Internet era had to do with parsing of the IP address bits.

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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:51 PM,  <dave.walden.family at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On May 10, 2012, at 7:11 PM, "Bernie Cosell" <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
>> Well, I don't think there was any 'subnet'ing with the ARPAnet
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> Well, I vaguely remember there was in some other sense -- logical subnets, a seldom used, if ever, feature where the IMPs could let a subset of hosts only communicate with each other.  Or, instead of a vague memory, do I have a wrong memory?    (Of course this is irrelevant to the distinction previously being discussed.)
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