Jeff, Let's agree to differ. The HiperArc is on my side. Not often I agree with 3COM, will try not to make a habit of it! Regards, Colin Also sprach Colin Wantling >We need Mike to confirm what the mask is on the HARC interface. Again, what the mask is on the Arc interface doesn't...well, shouldn't anyway...matter. Trying to set up a static route, 10.1.1.9/32 with a next-hop of 10.1.1.12, should pretty much *never* give an error like that. Now, depending upon several other factors, it may not actually install the route into the active routing table, but the system should not give the error that it did. In classless routing, there is no problem entering a route such as that above, even if a less specific route that encompasses that route is locally connected, the most specific route is chosen, period. Whether the route is locally connected or static, or OSPF or RIP, or whatever, is not relevant at this point. >His attached network may well be mask /29 /28 ... etc. So? Why should that cause any problem? >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. But there is absolutely nothing inconsistent about it. 10.1.1.9/32 -> 10.1.1.12 is perfectly consistent assuming 10.1.1.12 is reachable (which the earlier discussion indicated it was), even if its not reachable, it shouldn't generate an error like that, possibly a different error, but certainly not the one that is given. Given classless routing, there is no problem with entering the route that Mike specified. Again...this is purely an issue of 3Com not allowing perfectly legal, though less common configurations. 3Com has decided to protect us from ourselves. The route table setup that Mike would wish to see (and is perfectly legal) would look something like: Network /Mask Next-hop protocol 10.1.1.0 /24 10.1.1.8(eth:0) local (directly connected) 10.1.1.9 /32 10.1.1.12 static (went back and looked in previous messages...the Arc is 10.1.1.8 on a /24 netmask) -- 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.