Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:14:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady <rls@server.id.net> To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon) Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ulf@Lamb.net, joelee@col.com.hk, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is subnet #0 available for use? Message-ID: <199609031314.JAA01725@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960903071822.7075B-100000@uk1.vbc.net> from Jim Dixon at "Sep 3, 96 07:23:57 am"
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> > You'll also not get gated to work properly with subnet "all zeros" or
> > subnet "all ones". IF you are interested in gated, that is. The way to
> > define subnets with the maximum number of hosts is to define them with
> > 4,8,16,32,64,64,32,16,8,4 hosts, and discard the 4 hosts at each end
> > (0,1,2,3,252,253,254,255)
>
> ? We use gated under FreeBSD and BSD/OS and have no problems with these
> subnets. We certainly do not discard any groups of 4 hosts. For
> example, ns.vbc.net is at 194.207.0.1 and the four IP addresses
> 194.207.1.0 through .3 are used for one of our router ports (.1 is our
> end of the circuit, .2 the customer end).
As do we, 199.125.0.1 -> 199.125.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 works fine
going through our FreeBSD w/GateD & Cisco routers...
-- Rob
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