See http://www.completeis.com/subnet/lowhigh.html for an opinion about real
world subnetting. His regular tutorial is at www.completeis.com/subnet .
Eric Fagan
mailserve@pdqnet.net
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> From: Kurt A. Butzin, DDS <kurt@molar.net>
> To: 'ntisp@emerald.iea.com'
> Subject: RE: NT Routing/Bridging (was: Windows 95 Networking....)
> Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 7:10 AM
>
> Ive got the same type of setup, but I don't use the lowest and highest
> blocks of the subnet. I use a 255.255.255.192 submask, x.x.x.64 and
> x.x.x.128 portions of the block. I've been told that you can't use the
> upper and lower blocks when subnetting these days. Hope this helps, it
> works for me.
>
> Kurt A. Butzin, DDS
> Molarnet Technologies, Inc. (An Internet Solutions Provider)
>
> kurt@molar.net
> http://www.molar.net
>
> kurt@butzin.com
> http://www.butzin.com
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 08, 1997 2:14 AM, Eric Fagan [SMTP:mailserve@pdqnet.net]
> wrote:
> > > I have several Win95 and NT boxes on an ethernet with an Ascend
> Pipeline
> > > router to the outside world. All boxes can reach the outside. If
you
> > are
> > > trying to do this using NT as the router, it only works if you have 2
> > > separate subnets (unlikely) as far as I know.
> >
> > My configuration is similar to the above - however, I'm trying to
remove
> > the pipeline from hearing local area traffic.... I've got two NIC's in
> an
> > NT 4 box - one is hubbed with the LAN, the other with the router. I'm
> > trying to get the cards to route to each other when neccessary (IP
> packets
> > destined for out-of-LAN). So far, I can get the NT box to see both
> routes
> > - (to the LAN & to the router) - but I can't get the LAN to see past
the
> NT
> > box. MS KB sez that for the packets to route, each NIC must be on a
> > different subnet. I've done that (I think) but it doesn't appear to
> work.
> > The NIC to the router is xxx.xxx.xxx.4, on the lower quarter of a
> > 255.255.255.192 subnet. The NIC to the lan is xxx.xxx.xxx.126 - the
> second
> > quarter. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a wiz at subnetting - all I
know
> > is that the first one I built for the WAN worked mysteriously....
> >
> > This basically trying to build the same type of configuration you'd
have
> on
> > a proxy server - two NIC's, one at the router, one at the LAN.
> >
> > Help, anyone?
> >
> > Eric
> > mailserve@pdqnet.net
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