28 Jul
2011
28 Jul
'11
12:37 p.m.
On 7/28/11 4:18 AM, John Doe wrote:
- If I keep some machine with 22 subnet mask, will it still be able
to talk to the other machines in it's range?
Linux boxes seem to mostly work with the wrong netmask, but I've seen things that don't. Your subnet broadcast will be wrong.
They would talk to 10.1.16.1-10.1.19.254 ones, but would go for the gateway for 10.1.20.1-10.1.31.254
But the gateway may send an icmp redirect, knowing you should be able to reach the target directly. I'd recommend fixing everything to match as soon as possible.
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Les Mikesell
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