Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:31:27 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: TCP/IP Subnetting Message-ID: <200105111731.f4BHVRc07397@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 May 2001 11:15:31 BST." <86k83oi43g.fsf@pan.realtime.co.uk>
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Wayne, There are better possibilities. Break up the /25 as follows: Size Addresses Start Address Net Mask /26 62 addresses 128.1.1.128 255.255.255.192 /27 30 addresses 128.1.1.192 255.255.255.224 /28 14 addresses 128.1.1.224 255.255.255.240 /29 6 addresses 128.1.1.240 255.255.255.248 You may move the blocks around, but be careful calculating the addresses! Use the /29 for your 4 machine space. Use the other spaces for the rest of the systems, starting with the largest (/26). You can work communication by either setting up a system as a router between the address spaces or, more cleanly, you can set up appropriate routing table entries on each system with routes to the local network for each subnet that is used in the LAN. This means pointing 128.1.1.128, 128.1.1.192 and 128.1.1.224 at the local link. See the route(8) and netstat(1) man pages for more hints on how this can be done. Note that route(8) in FreeBSD does support CIDR add/len notation to make this easier. It has a major downside in requiring the configuration be loaded on EVERY system. While this looks ugly, it's how the Internet works and all providers do this routinely, although it's far easier to configure on a Cisco or Juniper than on a FreeBSD host. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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