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 ------------------ 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).