The mask on the Hiper ARC is /24. On with the dispute! I am learning a lot from the discussion so keep it up! Thanks. Mike Storjohann -----Original Message----- From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Colin Wantling Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:00 PM To: 'usr-tc@lists.xmission.com' Subject: RE: (usr-tc) Static Routing Question Jeff, We need Mike to confirm what the mask is on the HARC interface. This will get us past this techie discussion an onto helping the guy. His attached network may well be mask /29 /28 ... etc. This would give the error message he gets as it would then include the address of the HARC itself. Not a question of Classful/Classless, more a question of inconsistency and getting caught. Regards, Colin Also sprach Colin Wantling >Maybe yes, maybe no. No "maybe" to it...as long as the next-hop of the route isn't within the route itself, there's no problem. 10.1.1.12 isn't within 10.1.1.9/32, so there's no problem. Even if it were, its *possible* to even get that to work...but there's not a "standard" way of doing it. If you put the /32 in there, its gonna be the most specific route, so it will (should) be referenced before any shorter length match. At that point, the only questions are, "Is the next-hop reachable?" There's another route that is valid for the next-hop address (locally connected), so yes. "Is there a higher precedence route of the same mask length (ie, /32)?" Possible, but unlikely. >The route Mike is adding has a /32 mask, he doesn't say what the mask >is on the HARC ethernet interface already. Doesn't matter. As long as the next-hop for the /32 route is reachable, it should be accepted. Even if the next-hop isn't reachable, the route should probably be accepted...just not entered into the active routing table. >By giving it an address from another subnet, you can beat >the rules. s/rules/bugs/ :) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.