Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.UUCP
From: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: subnet mask problem
Message-ID: <24-May-89.141216@192.41.214.2>
Date: 24 May 89 18:02:27 GMT
References: <6200023@hpindda.HP.COM>
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Reply-To: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA
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In article <6200023@hpindda.HP.COM>, tozz@hpindda.HP.COM (Bob Tausworthe) writes:
> 1) is a mask such as 255.255.0.255 even legal (i.e. conform to specifications)

A subnet mask can be any combination of 32 bits and still be legal.  However,
there do exist a number of IP implementations that can only handle masks
with contiguous '1' bits, or worse, contiguous '255' bytes.

These implementations are broken.

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Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.UUCP>
InterCon Systems Corporation