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Date:      11 May 2001 11:15:31 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
To:        Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
Cc:        , questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: TCP/IP Subnetting
Message-ID:  <86k83oi43g.fsf@pan.realtime.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010511100128.D21357@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <86r8xxnncd.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk> <20010511100128.D21357@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> 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 :)

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- Wayne Pascoe 
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