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From: leach@oce.orst.edu (Tom Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: KStar and split subnetting
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Date: 31 Aug 89 16:40:25 GMT
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Reply-To: leach@oce.orst.edu (Tom Leach)
Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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Has anyone out there gotten a Kinetics FastPath 4 to work with the Kstar
software  (V7.0 supplied by Kinetics) to do split subnetting (option 9 in
fastpath manager V5.0).  This should let us assign an address (class B
network) in subnet 64.0 to the ethernet side of the KFP, and use addresses
in subnet 66.0 for the Macs.  Both netmasks are assigned as fffffe00.  I want
to do this to cut down on the numbers of IP-addresses that I'm using on my 
base subnet.  (I have 4 subnets available to me and I want to assign one 
of them to Macs & PC's over appletalk)

I've been running with non-split subnets (no option 9), but that forces
all the Mac IP addresses to be on my base subnet which is non-optimal
(it works, it's just not exactally what I want to do.)  As soon as I
turn option 9 on, everything breaks.  I've added a route on my unix host
that should route any 66.0 traffic through 65.34 (the KFP).  If I try to
ping the KFP's ethernet side from the Unix host, I get a proper
response.  If I try to ping the KFP's appletalk side (in
split-subnetting), Ping reports 100% packet loss.

Any Clues???

Tom Leach
leach@oce.orst.edu

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