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Re: Subnetting/Routing

Subject: Re: Subnetting/Routing
From: Moe Trin
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:33:37 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
In article <d617g2$pl6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Unruh wrote:
>ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

>>Bottom line - you can use a non-contiguous mask on your network if you
>>please (though it won't be easy to configure),

>>Your network, your configuration, your problems.

>Well, it also depends on how the routing software has been written on your
>machine. If it was written expecting contiguous addresses, then despite
>what the rfc says, you will probably have problems.

I don't know of any O/S at the moment that will tolerate a non-contiguous mask

>If I had a dollar for eery program which violated the rfcs I think I would
>be rich.

Nah, only Bill Gates gets to milk that cow, and mainly because microsoft
goes out of their way to avoid following standards - even their own. Remember
the compatibility of MS-CHAP-v1 (chap-80 loosely described in RFC2433) verses
MS-CHAP-v2 (chap-81 even more loosely described in RFC2759)?

        Old guy

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