Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!think!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!ron.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Subnet questions. Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 88 21:25:29 GMT References: <8810031020.AA02610@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 If your campus is connected together by datalink bridges rather than routers, you are not really subnetting. You are just imposing a scheme for assigning numbers. Leave the hosts thinking they are using an unsubnetted class B network (which is what they are doing). You can still assign the more significant byte to be the building number and the least significant one to be the host number. That way if you ever do get smart and get routers, you will already be ready to subnet. You will avoid having to renumber everything. -Ron