And with a 0.0.0.0 network, just how are you going to handle a gateway of
last resort?
""Cthulu, CCIE Candidate"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi, all,
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> 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:
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> ip address 192.0.0.1 128.0.0.0
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> 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...
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> 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)??
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>
> Technically, doing the straight math, we have two subnets containing all
the
> host addresses in the free world!!! Wowza! ("Bob, we just lost
Wichita!")
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> 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)
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>
> Would be interesting to hear some theories and feedback....
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> Charles
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