Alexander
>Once upon a time Alexander Zatko shaped the electrons to say...
>>A quite while back last year I installed ComOS v. 3.7. I have never
>>understand why can I enter subnet mask 255.255.255.240 into a dial-up
>>user profile, but when that particular user logs in, the port reports
>>Netmask: 255.255.255.255. Why is this?
>
>Because, but default, ComOS *IGNORES* user netmasks. This is because
>before CIDR/VLSM was supported, you couldn't effectively honor them. And
>then turning them on by default would have destroyed routing for too many
>people who had bogus entries in RADIUS, etc, which had never bit them because
>they'd been ignored.
>
>You need to turn this on:
>'set user-netmask on'
>
>Then the user setting will be honored.
>
>> Netmask: 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.240
>
>Note that this is a PORT setting (on the right) and will be utterly and
>completely ignored when the port is used for dialin/out. These settings
>are only used for Hardwired ports.
>
>Also - you do know that any single IP user MUST have 255.255.255.255 as
>their netmask, right? If the user actually had .240 as a mask you'd be
>routing multiple IPs over that link. Do you WANT to route multiple IPs
>to the user?
>
>-MZ
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