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Re: Subnetting, Arghh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nelson@crynwr.com)
Sat Aug 10 20:24:33 1996

Date: 	9 Aug 1996 20:50:13 -0000
From: nelson@crynwr.com
To: Linux Net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9608090841.ZM2966@extacy>

Randall Shutt writes:

 >      You pretty much have a rigid set of choices.  Either 2 nets of 64 usable,
 > or 6 nets of 30 usuable.  There are plenty beyond that, but I think the 30 is
 > your case.  Here is what the mappings would look like:

At very least, Cisco routers can be configured for 4 nets of 62 usable
or 8 nets of 30 usable.  And Linux as a router has no problem using
all four or eight networks.

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