Stupid Question maybe?
Naslund, Steve
SNaslund at medline.com
Wed Dec 19 14:54:34 UTC 2018
I am wondering how a netmask could be not contiguous when the network portion of the address must be contiguous. I suppose a bit mask could certainly be anything you want but a netmask specifically identifies the network portion of an address.
Steve
> I seem to remember that before the advent of VLSM and CIDR there was
> no requirement for the 1 bits in the netmask to be contiguous with no
> intervening 0 bits and there was always someone who tested it out on a
> production network just to prove a point (usually only once)
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