jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) (05/14/87)
4.3BSD provides for a "subnet" mask to make the network part of an address larger, stealing bits from the host part. Usefull if you have a type A or B address and wish to have several separate networks. I am faced with the opposite problem; type C address merging into one large network. Does anyone know if it works to use the subnetmask to make the host part of the address larger? (Superneting?) Could I use a type C address and a netmask of: 0xFFFF0000 (255.255.0.0) or even: 0xFF000000 (255.0.0.0) so that the routing would assume that the other hosts shared the same network? Has anyone tried this? Any reason it shouldn't be done?