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Article #540Re: Serial interfaces IP number question
From: Kent England
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 16:54
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 16:54
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In article <2442@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, vaillan@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Clement Vaillancourt) writes: > How do I number the serial links or the serial links interfaces? > ... > > I don't want to waist subnet because we are planning to interconnect > about 100 sites eventually. > You could use unnumbered serial lines, but you would lose the ability to talk about them in SNMP. I heard that cisco supports unnumbered serial lines "now", but don't ask me what release that is. Or you could try and get cisco to implement a routing protocol that carries along subnet mask information, allowing the subnet masks to vary from one interface to another. OSPF comes to mind as a candidate protocol. --Kent
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!bu-it!kwe From: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: Serial interfaces IP number question Message-ID: <62537@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 16:54:31 GMT References: <2442@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England) Organization: Boston University Lines: 19