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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:45:40 -0700
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, chrw <shredder@hack.babel.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: routing between networks
Message-ID:  <199710070045.RAA00853@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> "Re: routing between networks" (Oct  6,  3:33pm)

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On Oct 6,  3:33pm, Don Lewis wrote:
} Subject: Re: routing between networks

} [ deleted ] If you have two (or some power of two) adjacent network
} numbers that start on a power of two boundary, and if all the boxes on
} the network understand classless routing ({Free,Open,Net}BSD should all
} qualify, as does Solaris 2.6, and I imagine that Linux probably does
} as well), then the best solution is to just change the network mask to
} do supernetting.  In this case, you would just need to do:
} 	ifconfig interface 194.19.{1,2}.xxx netmask 255.255.254.0

As it was pointed out to me, the alignment of these two network numbers
isn't right for this to work unless you can include the 194.19.{0,3}.*
networks as well. To do this you would use a netmask of 255.255.252.0.

			---  Truck



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