Hi, all,
I wanted to stimulate some discussion on subnetting here. I was playing
around with subnetting today (I was not trying to solve any problem in
particular). Anyways, on a router interface, I entered:
ip address 192.0.0.1 128.0.0.0
The router happily took it. I could ping the interface...scarey! I am well
aware that in the real world, we start things with a 255 on that first
octet. But for discussion purposes...
why shouldn't I do this (see below): Granted, classful routing protocols
such as RIP V1 would probably sicken and be unable to handle something like
this, but what of EIGRP and OSPF? IS-IS? Something like this would be good
for aggregation purposes (BGP)??
Technically, doing the straight math, we have two subnets containing all the
host addresses in the free world!!! Wowza! ("Bob, we just lost Wichita!")
0.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255 (subnet number and its associated broadcast
address, first host address would be 0.0.0.1)
128.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 (subnet number and its associated broadcast
address, first host address would be 128.0.0.1)
Would be interesting to hear some theories and feedback....
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Charles
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