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- From: merdian@rus.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de (Peter Merdian)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Re: Subnetting and class B nets
- Message-ID: <2299*merdian@rus.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:36:57 GMT
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- > But for some reason (perhaps some subnetting rule),
- > the cisco will to not accept two *different* subnet masks for the
- > same class B network. The cisco automatically changes the subnet
- > mask for all interfaces with the same class B network address to the
- > last subnet mask of the last interface set.
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- According to RFC 950 only one subnetmask is allowed for an IP network:
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- For example, the Internet address might be interpreted as:
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- <network-number><subnet-number><host-number>
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- where the <network-number> field is as defined by IP [3], the
- <host-number> field is at least 1-bit wide, and the width of the
- <subnet-number> field is constant for a given network. No further
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- structure is required for the <subnet-number> or <host-number>
- fields. If the width of the <subnet-number> field is zero, then
- the network is not subnetted (i.e., the interpretation of [3] is
- used).
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- We have the same problem as you and waste a lot of our Class B
- address space because of this. I have heard some rumors that new
- routing protocols (OSPF ?) could solve this problem by carrying a
- variable subnet mask information with them.
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- -- Peter
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- Peter Merdian, BelWue Coordination, University of Stuttgart, merdian@belwue.de
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