I see that the definition lines got messed up... let's try monospace font. :-)
HOME 10.1.100.21 CTC1 10.1.55.21/16 NIC1 GATEWAY ; address 'mask' 1st-hop link-name MTU 10.1.100.20 HOST = CTC1 4096 DEFAULTNET 10.1.35.50 NIC1 1024 Thanks, Shimon On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Shimon Lebowitz <shimon...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have a subnetting question. > > As far as I can see, I should be able to define connections like this: > > HOME > 10.1.100.21 CTC1 > 10.1.55.21/16 NIC1 > > GATEWAY > ; address 'mask' 1st-hop > link-name MTU > 10.1.100.20 HOST = > CTC1 4096 > DEFAULTNET 10.1.35.50 > NIC1 1024 > > What I mean by this is, that even though NIC1 is defined as having > a mask of /16, I want to also define a specific P2P link which also > starts with "10.1". Since the exact address at the other end of CTC1 > is defined (10.1.100.20), there is no need for TCPIP to use the > subnet mask and assume that this address is part of the network > on NIC1. > > Is this correct, or invalid/illegal? > > Thanks, > Shimon > >