From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 3:20:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02A837B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.realtime.co.uk) Received: from pan.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.207]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14yA1u-0000lm-01; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:20:14 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14y9xL-00013o-00; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:15:31 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Rasputin Cc: , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: TCP/IP Subnetting References: <86r8xxnncd.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <20010511100128.D21357@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: 11 May 2001 11:15:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010511100128.D21357@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: <86k83oi43g.fsf@pan.realtime.co.uk> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rasputin writes: > Can't be done. Yeah, learned this last night :) Bah! :) > You can only split networks in half, so you can have: > > 128 addresses (126 usable) > 64 (62 usable) > 32 (30 usable) > 16 (14 usable) > 8 (6 usable) > 8 (6 usable) <---- put your 4 here > > But now you're looking at 6 subnets, which isn't what you want. > > Don't know of a way round this , and you're looking at connecting all those > separate subnets with a lot of networking kit. I'm looking into it now. Possibly subnetting into batches of 32, routing one of those via eth0/1 and routing the other 3 via eth0/0 Go from there and see what happens :) -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message