I agree more or less with the below, and although I have not had this
experience, I have heard of some people having os specific issues with non
classful netmask boundaries. This could be a routing thing if for
example you are trying to use rip v1 an an igp with a classless
network. You and your network guy need to talk.
Brian
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Donald B Johnson Jr wrote:
> Ted you cant troubleshoot vlsm without configs.
> Some things to remember are subnets are different networks, and need a
> router.
> VLSM is just a way to effectively use available address space. But they are
> still subnets and need to be routed.
> 1. Find out if you can ping local addresses.
> 2. Find out if you can ping remote addresses and which ones.
> 2a. Routes have to be coming and going.
> 3. Also which type of routes do you have. Static/Default/Dynamic
> 4. Which type of routing protocols are you using. Distance Vector won't
> work.
> 5. What do you care! If you are just the "Server Guy" if your services are
> running then your done. Let the "Networking Guy" figure it out.
> You ain't getting paid to do it. We on the list are not getting paid to
> trouble shoot major VLSM problems either. This is more a group study/help
> site.
> Duck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Byerly, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:49 AM
> Subject: RE: VLSM Problem
>
>
> > I should have added more info. All the clients are configured in our org
> > properly. Some clients are on diff subnets with diff masks, others are on
> > the same vlsm with its appropriate subnet mask. some stations ping the
> > clients while others cannot, however the clients can be ping'd from other
> > stations.
> >
> > and I did search the archives, any help would be appreciated
> >
> > Ted Byerly
> > System Support Analyst
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Irwin Lazar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:27 AM
> > To: 'Byerly, Ted'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: VLSM Problem
> >
> >
> > Most times that I've seen this type of thing, it ends being a
> mis-configured
> > subnet mask on the remote workstation. Verify that the machine that you
> are
> > trying to ping is properly configured.
> >
> > irwin
> >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Byerly, Ted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:16 PM
> > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: VLSM Problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok at the risk of being flamed I will post this question. We have
> > > implemented a VLSM and also have some subnets left over from
> > > our previous
> > > config. We are having intermittent problems reaching hosts
> > > both within and
> > > outside the vlsm. During troubleshooting if I ping a client
> > > by IP I get a
> > > time out error, if I try from another machine on the same or different
> > > subnet it also times out. But going to a third client , they
> > > are able to
> > > ping this machine. This occurs to different machines at
> > > different times and
> > > different subnets. The client is functioning properly for the user.
> > >
> > > My major question is are there known problems with vlsm and
> > > connectivity
> > > issues or could our router be not configured properly. I am the lowly
> > > server guy and the "network" guy refuses to believe the
> > > problem is related
> > > to vlsm, however we have never experienced this before
> > >
> > > Ted
> > >
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