Wolf wrote:
It's called CIDR, Classless Internet Domain Routing.
All the ones in the mask must be on the more-significant
side of any zeroes. No zeroes are allowed between the ones
and no ones between the zeroes in the netmask.
Well thats not the rfd standard ! Go Read the standard !
The mask is valid but non-continous .. Not to mention You
can do anything You want on a private network
On the one hand you mention standards, on the other you say you can do what
you want. :)
It is not a valid netmask. .Using CIDR or Classful you can never get to a
253 netmask If you don't believe me, try doing the math with paper and
pencil. A little demonstration will go a long way to clearing up
misconceptions.
Like I said Go read the rfd standard .. what is allowed is not
necessaraly what is normal done.
CLIP
I will try and find some decent sites on subnetting and post URLs here for
ya. You can start by checking out Cisco though.
This is not a discussion of LETS BUY CISCO - I don't care what cisco
does. If they can not split a class into a non-binary number of networks
that's a good reason not to buy cisco.
Bottom line
The original start of this thread was to add more hosts to an
existing network. NOT how to properly set up a subnet. Hind sight is
always 20-20
The easy way is to just change the netmask NOT assign new IP addresses
to every machine.
NITPICKING over netmask number's adds nothing to solve the original
problem. Which was the Whole point of my original post. Just use a
different netmask. Bickering about which number is a waste of time.
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