Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> Tom Emerson wrote:
> >I seem to recall from the very first time I came across an HP with
> >networking that the values set up were something like "6.xx.yy.zz", and at
> >the time, "network 6" was HP's class A network value...

Don't know about any split allocations, but 6 belongs to the Navy:

OrgName:    Naval Ocean Systems Center
OrgID:      DNIC
NetRange:   6.0.0.0 - 6.255.255.255
CIDR:       6.0.0.0/8
NetName:    YUMA-NET
NetHandle:  NET-6-0-0-0-1

HP's original corporate block was 15:

OrgName:    Hewlett-Packard Company
OrgID:      HP
NetRange:   15.0.0.0 - 15.255.255.255
CIDR:       15.0.0.0/8
NetName:    HP-INTERNET
NetHandle:  NET-15-0-0-0-1

> In the very early days of IP networking on MPE, the documentation (maybe of
> the README rather than official variety) on configuring IP had you contact
> HP to get an address-block.  And HP was passing out class-C address blocks
> as needed, but I don't remember what numbers we got "way back when".

Many were assigned to customers out of this block in the 1980s:

OrgName:    Hewlett-Packard Company
OrgID:      HP
NetRange:   192.30.0.0 - 192.30.255.255
CIDR:       192.30.0.0/16
NetName:    HP4
NetHandle:  NET-192-30-0-0-1

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