25 Feb
2012
25 Feb
'12
7:46 a.m.
Hello Mario,
In fact I wanted just to point out some possible points to think about them.
If they are non-issues, that's fine :-)
It is clear that broadcasts are used locally.
That depends on if your network is a broadcast network
(like Ethernet).
Thats when you need the broadcast address.
But if we don't take in account the fact that an subnet is further subneted,
than there's a chance that one tries to send a packet to a network or
broadcast address.
I think the allocation scheme should be aware of that.
That depends: If you can change the netmask of the
subnet in question to a
/23, then the routers would be fine.
In that case the discussion doesn't apply since it is just a regular /23
subnet.
But you can not just define such a joined subnet without special care ,
because in that case the broadcast IP of the first and the network IP of the
second subnet will become routable IP addresses.
Just my 2 cents...
73! Marius, YO2LOJ