Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:47:41 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is subnet #0 available for use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960904074606.768A-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199609031314.JAA01725@server.id.net>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Robert Shady wrote: I wrote: > > > 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 > > 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... OK, I'm prepared to be wrong. I do remember gated complaining to me once about this, but it was a while ago and may have been an earlier gated or my own misconfiguration. Danny
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