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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 23:46:21 +0100
From:      Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: TCP/IP Subnetting
Message-ID:  <20010511234621.A16017@tethys.valhalla.net>
In-Reply-To: <86g0ebmzu4.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk>; from wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:48:35PM %2B0100
References:  <200105111731.f4BHVRc07397@ptavv.es.net> <86g0ebmzu4.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk>

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Wayne Pascoe (wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk) wrote:
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> 
> > Break up the /25 as follows:
> > Size   Addresses       Start Address    Net Mask
> > /26   62 addresses     128.1.1.128	255.255.255.192
> > /27   30 addresses     128.1.1.192	255.255.255.224
> > /28   14 addresses     128.1.1.224      255.255.255.240
> > /29    6 addresses     128.1.1.240      255.255.255.248
> 
> Ok, what I finally settled on was 4 /27's... It means that I have to
> give a bunch of extra addresses to the network that only needs 4, but
> it seemed like a good idea at the time.
> 
> Now that I'm looking at your example, I'm thinking yours may be
> better. Is there any advantage to it other than more bigger ranges and
> not losing extra addresses to the other network ?

I don't see any disadvantages to it really, unless you need to split the
120-odd addresses into equal sized chunks rather than 3 different sized
chunks. Either way you're going to have at least 3 subnets.

> I was planning on putting a cisco 2621 in between each of the 3 /27's
> to handle routing between them. Traffic between them should be
> minimal, and machines that need to talk to each other a lot will be on
> the same segment. Does this make sense ? This router would then handle
> the outgoing route from all these machines.

Instead of the 2621 you could use another machine and bind several
virtual interfaces (one for each /27) to one of it's nics, thereby
saving the 2621 for a situation where you need real interfaces.

Cheers,

-- 

Mark Drayton

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