Re: Putting livingstons on seperate class-c's

Matthew S. Crocker (matthew@crocker.com)
Sat, 3 May 1997 08:29:35 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Jason Hatch wrote:
Very simple netmask trick.

1) pick the size of the subnet (4,8,16,32,64,128) You will lose to IP
address from each subnet (high and low) so a 4 is really 2 usable IP's.

2) netmask = 256 - <subnet size>

Example

255.255.255.256-4 = 255.255.255.252 = 2 bit/4 IP 2 usable subnet
255.255.255.256-32 = 255.255.255.224 = 5 bit/32 IP 30 usable subnet

You should route a .224 subnet to the PM2e-30's

Now you may actually be able to compete with us ;)

> These are Pm2e2's. I can't just assign IP addresses to the first starting
> at xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and the second at xxx.xxx.xxx.31 and so on? I have to
> subnet them to 30 IP subnets (which makes sense, but I suck at figuring
> out netmasks).
>
> -Jason

-Matt, Just east of berkshire county :)

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