Re: 10 * 172.16 * 192.168 ... why?

In article <slrng0pshd.2r.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
article <bnftd5-3m4.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hactar wrote:

antonio <xxx@xxxxxx> wrote:

does have any sense this numbers?

10, may be, it's easy to remember for our decimal-sistem
192 it's the first of the C class... but why *168*?
and 172.16?

it seems random...

They require relatively few components to recognize in hardware:

Ummm, when was the last time you popped the hood on a computer, and
had a look at the components on the motherboard? Looking for IP
addresses out of the billions of items of data that are floating
around doesn't require dedicated hardware. It's done as a bit
comparison in the CPU.

_Now_ it is. How were routers constructed when IPv4 was designed?

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