Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:59:19 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <37810E97.90AE60E9@airnet.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990705130208.676B-100000@elect8>
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Nick Hibma wrote: > We had a couple of misbehaving NT/Windows machines, having a submask of > 255.255.0.0, all trying to find their domain controller at the same > time, creating huge piles of fragments and broadcasts on the sitewide > net (yep, flat B IP-space, all bridged with cheap bridges :-( The whole > site of 2000 people was unreachable. The system administrator of that > building claimed it was not his fault until someone walked in and tore > out the fibre, damaging the ethernet controller of the bridhe and the > cable in the process, on purpose. Can amyone explain to me the rational of setting the subnet mask only to have Windows pick the normal "default" for the number. (IE: 10.x.x.x domain, 255.0.0.0, I subnet it for 255.255.255.0. Both appear in the routing table.) <sigh> Sometimes it's good when the operating system doesn't think for you. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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