[ih] "Subnet"

[Matthias Bärwolff]

2012/5/11  <dave.walden.family at gmail.com>:
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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.)

Right memory. Logical subnetworks were introduced in 1974 (see BBN
reports 2852 and 2913; or CTRL-F in my 2010 thesis).

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