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Article #1807Re: backplane backbone, routing or bridging?
From: Greg Satz
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 05:24
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 05:24
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>> Greg, >> I don't think there's anything illegal about having multiple subnets on the >> same cable with different subnet masks provided that all routers agree on the >> subnet/mask pairs. OSPF with variable-length subnet masks should be able to >> handle this. >> >> --Vince Exactly why this should be written down somewhere. It is enough of a change to the IP architecture that word of mouth can lead to interesting interopable incompatibilities. Jeff Mogul did a good job of describing how subnetting should work. Who is going to augment it with the variable length changes? Greg
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From: Greg Satz <satz@cisco.com>
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