> I've got a class C that I'm partitioning as follows:
>
> a.b.c.0/255.255.255.240 customer 0
> a.b.c.8/255.255.255.240 myself, two cats, a linux box, and a '95 box
> a.b.c.32/255.255.255.192 customer 32
>
> Is mixing the netmasks going to get me into IP hell, or has anyone had
> success with subnetting off the Portmaster?
Mixing the masks will be a disaster. Pick one netmask and use it
consistently because the PM will only remember one netmask per classfull
network address.
You can approach the effect of variable subnetting by routing several
smaller subnets to a client - but they can't use the "boundary" IP addresses.
Steve
Internet Africa