In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980421001700.3979H-100000 at devel.dbd.com>, Mark Whitis <whitis at dbd.com> wrote: > Even then, your netmask should have 1s on the left and right > (i.e. 255.255.0.255) for a /16 subnetted at /8. Discontiguous netmasks has been deprecated or unsupported for a very long time. -- Shields, CrossLink.