Re: variable-length subnet masks on pm2e?

Gordon Soukoreff (gordon@knet.kootenay.net)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:17:59 +0100

It's true, but I guess it's in beta test rigth now.

g.g.
^.^.....Gordie Gizzmo ( a confirmed cyber-wittness )

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Mark Frost wrote:

> Hello. I've kinda been snoozing whenever someone on this list has been talking
> about issues involving subnets since we haven't needed to use any here.
>
> Unfortunately, I am now being forced to look at chopping up our Class C into 3
> smaller networks. I would like to make one subnet with 126 addrs, and two
> other subnets with 62 addrs.
>
> I was reading the livingston documentation I have about subnets (950-1201B --
> December 1995) and on page 2-7 it indicates that variable length subnets are
> not supported.
>
> Yikes! Is this still true? I am running the 3.3.3 release on my PM2E. I am
> hoping that it was true at the time that doc set was written, but is fixed in a
> subsequent release...
>
> Thanks
>
> -mark
>