[cwb71]

Except that qwerty_asdf wasn't referring to a /24 subnet, (s)he was talking about one of the three address spaces defined in RFC 1918 and described thusly:

"Note that (in pre-CIDR notation) the first block is nothing but a single class A network number, while the second block is a set of 16 contiguous class B network numbers, and third block is a set of 256 contiguous class C network numbers."

So it is common for crusty old network engineers and sysadmins to refer to 192.168/16 as "the class C" private block, even when they understand that you can subnet it however you'd like.

[jlgaddis]

> ... (s)he was talking about one of the three address spaces defined ...

Right, I realized that when s/he said "reserved Class C range". It was more of a general observation. I always forget I have to be extremely specific here on HN.