todd@janus.Quotron.com (Todd Booth) (02/13/90)
Hi netWorkers,
It appears that a lot of TCP/IP software out there does not fully
support subnetting. Is this true? I'd like to use the last 6 bits
for host addresses and therefore the netmask is 0xffffffc0. This
would translate the ip address 130.224.4.78 into:
net: 130.224.4.64
host: 0.000.0.14
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130.224.4.78, right?
But when I set up my routing tables with
route add net 130.224.4.64 130.224.4.78 0
lots of TCP/IP software has trouble. The software appears to assume that
a subnet can't use any of the last 8 bits.
--todd
ps. I can't wait to get back on internet (estimated date - next week).