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From: ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: TCP/IP SubNet Masks?
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Date: 21 Dec 88 03:46:08 GMT
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The documentation seems to imply that a subnet mask can be any number of
bits in length.  Is this really true?  We would like to be able to
allocate ten bits for sub net numbers and 6 bits for host numbers.  The
machine we are most interested in doing this on are Suns, VAXen, and IBM
RTs.  If anyone has had experience in doing this I would appreciate
hearing from them.  Thanks in advance.

Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu>
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science
University Park, PA   16802