Hi Vic, On Thursday, 01/08/2004 at 01:04ZE10, Vic Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This came up in the past, and a developer (don't you love it when people > say "I heard this from development" -- and no, I don't think it was you > Alan!) said "working as designed". Sure, before CIDR. But now that > VARSUBNETTING in your PROFILE TCPIP is ignored because the assumption is > that you want CIDR, I can't help but think that this is just misleading > and confusing. IMHO, it either needs to be fixed or removed.
You probably heard this from me. Our Guest LAN simulation does NOT use the netmask value to direct or filter the IP frames sent over Guest LAN. When I first learned that the netmask was available on the command that is used to register an IP address, I thought it would be useful to display the associated netmask. I assumed it would be the "subnet mask" and the QUERY LAN with DETAILS would help determine if somebody had configured a bad netmask. In practice, the drivers seem to be sending the "network mask" instead of the "subnet mask" so this display is not as helpful as I would have hoped. The netmask might vanish from those CP responses at some point in the future. Regards, Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Musselwhite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) z/VM Development -- CP Network Simulation -- IBM Endicott NY
