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Subnets - Can you have more than one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Maldonado)
Sat Sep 14 05:29:14 1996
From: Daniel Maldonado <danny@ct-ngnet.army.mil>
To: "'Linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu'" <Linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:30:15 -0400
Hi everyone,
I met a guy at work the other day and started talking about
subnetting. He said that two computers on the same network can have
different subnet masks. For example one computer can have a subnet mask of
255.255.255.0 while another could have a 255.255.248.0 subnet. I was under
the impression that there could only be one network number in ever network.
He said that the computers with different subnets would not be able to see
each other but they would both be able to share the network and find other
computers with their same subnet. Is this true? Maybe when it was
explained in the Cisco router class that I took I misunderstood the
instructor. Can anyone verify this? I need this info for our Linux
systems.
TIA
