At 08:42 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
I have a /24 network I want to subnet into two /25's. For realism's sake, let's call the network
216.40.155.0/24 (mask 255.255.255.0)
So I have two 126-host networks, namely
216.40.155.0/25 (mask 255.255.255.128) 216.40.155.128/25 (mask 255.255.255.128)
The person with whom I was calmly discussing the matter said that this configuration didn't make any sense, because my first subnet had all zeroes in the last octet, so it was an all-zeroes subnet; and the second had all ones on the last octet, so it was an all-ones subnet. And that these subnets were reserved as the network subnet, and the broadcast subnet, much as all-zeroes and all-ones in the host portion indicate the network and broadcast addresses.
He is correct for "classful" networking. If you run classless IP, his comments are irrelevant.
Both myself and the customer are using Bay Networks routers.
Ahhhhhh. I see your problem. :p
If anybody else is interested in this, let me know, and I'll summarize direct responses to the list.
I'm afraid that most people here know better. But thanx anyway.
------Scott.
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