[1751] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Static vs dynamic routing from ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Wed Jan 31 07:28:14 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:36:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@paladin.com>
To: Al Longyear <longyear@netcom.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601310221.SAA22784@netcom14.netcom.com>
On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Al Longyear wrote:
> Yes you can. It is no so neat of a trick.
>
> It is called having six "host" routes; you know, the ones WITHOUT the -net
> option.
A kludged "network". :-) Then each of the hosts would also need static
host entries for each of the others in order for it to look like a LAN to
any of the hosts.
> The other option is to have a three bit netmask and use only six of the eight
> possible addresses.
Ayuh. And that'd be a subnet.
Chris Woods Systems Administrator
cjwoods@paladin.com Paladin Computing Solutions
617-273-4226 http://www.paladin.com
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