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From: Robert Shady <rls@server.id.net>
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Subject: Re: is subnet #0 available for use?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960903071822.7075B-100000@uk1.vbc.net> from Jim Dixon at "Sep 3, 96 07:23:57 am"
To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:14:50 -0400 (EDT)
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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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