Hi list, I'm stucked here with variable length subnet masks. Well I've gone through the rfc1878, googled a bit around, read through the TCP/IP Networking Administration by Craig Hunt (okay I must confess it's ``just" the german translation) and read a pile of eMails in your list's archive with no result except that I'm confused... Here's the detail: I'm having here a class C network which I want to split into unequal parts. Starting point is 172.25.156.0/24 Well I just thought *no problem* and started to split the whole net via vlsm into the following parts: net broadcast hosts range mask* 172.25.156.0 172.25.156.192 1-191 255.255.255.0 172.25.156.193 172.25.156.223 194-222 255.255.255.192 172.25.156.224 172.25.156.239 225-238 255.255.255.224 172.25.156.240 172.25.156.255 241-254 255.255.255.240 ------------ (*) I'm pretty sure that this is completely rubbish but see it as a symbol of my confusion I guess I got the part, that a vlsm of 255.255.255.128 would divide my class C into two subnets of each 126 hosts and that a vlsm of 255.255.255.192 would do the same with 4 subnets each with a max. of 62 hosts. So if somebody could mind and bring some light in here I'd be thankful. HAND Frank. -- Frank Brodbeck System administrator apprentice oakenshield@gmx.net University of Karlsruhe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
