Re: Routing Questions: 1 Radius, 1 OSPF (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:18:03 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time John-David Childs shaped the electrons to say...
>So, are you saying that it's OK to set-assigned to any subnet boundary IP
>except .0???

Well, and the last which would cause .255 to be issued at the end of the
pool.

>If I then set-assigned to X.X.X.1 with a pool-size of 32 (so "mandated"
>(according to previous posts in this forum) in order to allow OSPF routes
>to be broadcast as a single entry rather than multiple host routes), then

No, that won't work. That's NOT an even subnet.

You can't use the first and last subnets with a pools size of 32.

>subnet boundary or the subnet boundary +1), the PM will at some point
>assign an IP address which is the network/broadcast IP of the next/current

That doesn't matter- you are not really subnetting. OSPF doesn't care.

-MZ

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