Re: "Several Hundred RIP Routes" (fwd)

King Chung Ho (kingho@glink.net.hk)
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 04:17:25 +0800 (HKT)

On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:

> Once upon a time Igor V. Semenyuk shaped the electrons to say...
> >imagine a stack of say 10 PM2e-30 servicing 300 phone lines. You need
> >to turn on RIP on the PMs and set netmasks to 255.255.255.255 in
> >order to make this to work as one unit from the customers' point of view.
>
> Not unless you use fixed IPs.
>
> Use 32 IP subnets, MUCH less routing.
>
> -MZ

But the "add route" doesn't not allow you to specify a netmask. How would
you do routing between dialup customers connecting to different PM2e-30
assuming that the ethernet ports' IP addresses do not belong to the
same class C IP address (since we are talking about 300 phone lines).
Would an entry in the netmask table handle this and specify a route like

add netmask xxx.yyy.zzz.0 255.255.255.224
add route xxx.yyy.zzz.32 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd 1

Thanks,

Best regards,

King Ho
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