>
>
> I can't speak for Matthew, but many smallish ISPs have legacy /24
> allocations from using Livingston Portmasters and IRXes before they
> could do CIDR (I *think* they solved that problem, but I don't know
> for sure).
>
> -george
>I think the problem was with variable-sized subnets within a /24, not
with subnetting at all, but I could be wrong.
Please review RFC 1879 for the particulars on certain
existing equipment providers and their abilities to
support near-term addresing proposals.