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From: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Subject: Re: Serial interfaces IP number question
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Date: 14 Aug 90 16:54:31 GMT
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In article <2442@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, vaillan@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Clement
Vaillancourt) writes:
> How do I number the serial links or the serial links interfaces?
> ...
> 
> I don't want to waist subnet because we are planning to interconnect
> about 100 sites eventually.
> 

	You could use unnumbered serial lines, but you would lose the
ability to talk about them in SNMP.  I heard that cisco supports
unnumbered serial lines "now", but don't ask me what release that is.

	Or you could try and get cisco to implement a routing
protocol that carries along subnet mask information, allowing
the subnet masks to vary from one interface to another.  OSPF comes
to mind as a candidate protocol.

	--Kent