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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!recnews
- From: Vince Fuller <vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Subnetting and class B nets
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 27 Aug 92 16:09:37 IST
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 10:08:15 PDT
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- So we choose a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 for the individual
- units and for the lines we would like to use something like
- 255.255.255.248. This way we get greater efficient use from the
- address space, rather than wasting an entire 256 address range space
- for each leased line. If we have 120 lines, we could end up wasting
- 132.64.1.x-132.64.120.x leaving just about 50% of the address space
- for real work. Packing the addresses for the leased lines into one
- segment of the class B network - such as 132.64.1.x makes sense and
- should work. 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.
-
- I am sure there must be some config command to bypass this problem.
- Or is everyone wasting oodles of address space on their leased line
- subnets?
-
- While OSPF explicitly allows this (as will RIP-II), cisco's implementation
- does not support it until release 9.1. As a field-test site for 9.1, I have
- just begun to start exercising this feature - on network 131.119.0.0, we now
- have routes with four different subnet masks:
-
- - 255.255.0.0 for the "default subnet" route
- - 255.255.255.0 for variable-length-subnet "challenged" (a California
- euphamism for handicapped) systems, i.e. pre-9.1 ciscos as well as
- for Ethernet subnets
- - 255.255.255.252 for serial links
- - 255.255.255.255 for point-to-point connections (originated by the
- Proteon OSPF implementation)
-
- We are waiting with baited breath for 9.1 to be released, since variable-length
- subnet mask support will *greatly* increase the efficiency of our address space
- allocation - for example, instead of using up all space in the address range
- 131.119.1.xxx through 131.119.134.xxx to support 134 point-to-point links (at
- 2/254 = <1% efficiency), I'll conceivably be able to squeeze all of these
- addresses into the range 131.119.1.0 - 131.119.3.xxx at (2/4 = 50% efficiency;
- best you can do, since all-ones and all-zeros are reserved addresses).
-
- --Vince
-