Re: (PM) Supernetting a pool....

Tom (tom@sdf.com)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:11:00 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Jeff Woods wrote:

> Secondly, if a user is on say, S1, and I do a SHOW S1, I get this:
>
> Remote Host: 198.85.229.42 (a part of my pool)
> Netmask: 255.255.255.255 (this doesn't seem valid to me!)

The netmask is right. The remote host is only one address, so the mask
should be all ones.

> I'm supernetting here.... I've been assigned 198.85.228.0/22 by my
> upstream, four consecutive class C's... I've kept the first TWO for our
> LAN, and am using the second two for dedicated connection customers....

That is probably bad network design. Do you really plan to put 512
devices on your LAN? Probably not. Much better to use a 27 bit or 26 bit
subnet for your LAN.

Tom

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