Re: (PM) multi network ethernet... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:37:04 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Dave Burgess shaped the electrons to say...
>I have a four class-C network (204.248.20/22) in which I use several PM
>products, a couple of routers, and a bunch of servers.
>
>The servers all seem to understand the 22 bit subnet mask, the routers
>handle it as well. Here's my dilemma:

Note that if you run ComOS 3.5 or higher, you CAN supernet a PM. You
can assign a /22 netmask to the ether and it will supernet.

There was a bug with proxy arp not handling supernets (it stopped at the
class boundary) but that is fixed in 3.7.2.

So if you are running the servers and routers on a /22 - load ComOS 3.7.2
on the PortMasters and run them on the /22 and everyone will be on the same
logical network and should see each other.

-MZ

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