Michael J. McGillick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'm trying to understand how netmasks work. We want to set up a small
>pool of IP Addresses, and the only thing we can do is specify the network
>and the netmask. They want the pool to start at 192.168.1.85, and have 5
>usuable IP Addresses. What do I specify for the netmask, and more
>importantly, why? I understand about setting up a network range, when the
>network is specified at 0, but this 80 is throwing off my thinking.
This won't answer your netmask question, but what are you planning on using
the small pool for? Are you trying to subnet a larger range so that you
can have them on different sides of a router (or physical network or
LAN/WAN) or for some other purpose? There used to be a pretty good subnet
calculator on Cisco's website, but I haven't looked for quite some
time. You could tell it what class (A, B, or C) of address you had to work
with and how many subnets or hosts you wanted to create and it would figure
out the network address, subnet mask, # of networks and # of hosts per
network for you.
If you just want to set aside a specific pool of addresses within a larger
range, what about using DHCP?
-Eric
Eric Sisler
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