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From Alan Watt's correction to his original mistaken posting:

>> likely to get you in trouble.  However, I am quite sure that nothing
>> stops you from getting yourself a new class C network and subnetting
>> it as described above.  This still saves you from wasting unnecessary
>> subnets of your class B.
>>


From Mark Tassinari's response to the above:
>
>Possibly, there is.  We just installed routers in the same configuration and 
>were faced with the same decisions.   Page 5-5 of the manual states " ...the 
>network must be set up such that it does not require traffic between any two 
>subnets to cross another network."  
>
>For the diagram below this would prohibit the use of a new class C network
>number for the point-to-point links.  
>
>       net 128.115.1.0    128.115.2.0
>	       |               |
>	       |               |
>	   --------         -------
>	  | cisco  |       | cisco |
>	   --------         -------
>	       \               /   point-to-point
>		 \           /     links
>		   \       /    <-----
>		  ----------
>		 | backbone |
>		 |  cisco   |
>		  ----------   
>
>We finally decided to burn a subnet for each link (fortunately there were only
>10).  I hope we will be into the next generation technology by the time we need
>those subnets, and that new technology will involve a topology change (like
>FDDI).
>

I should have just kept my mouth shut.  You're right; my "fix" for the
original mistake was no better.  Forget I said anything.

However, *I AM ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, CERTAINLY CONVNICED* there is
*NO TECHNICAL REASON* why you can't just get a class A address, and
subnet it on a 255.255.255.0 boundary.  This will give you 8-bit subnets
coming out of your ears.  Too bad the NIC won't give them out so
freely.  Aha! maybe I've finally figured out why we need OSI!! :-).

	- Alan S. Watt
	  High Speed Networking, Yale University
	  Computing and Information Systems
	  Box 2112 Yale Station
	  New Haven, CT  06520-2112
	  (203) 432-6600 X394
	  Watt-Alan@Yale.Edu


Moral:		Measure *thrice*, cut once.

  or:		It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool
		than to speak up and remove all doubt.