You are mistaking machine subnetting and subnetting defined in AD. They are not connected. The definitions in AD do not have to reflect what is really happening at the routing layer. They are generally close but there isn't any technical reason why they have to be. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathieu CHATEAU Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 4:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Overlapping AD Subnet Boundaries is it really 10.10.0.0/16 or a mistake (/24) ? Because your first site won't be able to joint the other one as it will think it's local and won't sent packet to the gateway (if it's really a /16). If it's a real /24, then it will works as expected (10.10.41.104 will be attached to the secondary site). If it's a /16 and you need router between both site, your configuration can't work from a network point of view. Regards, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Cline <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:19 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Overlapping AD Subnet Boundaries Say I create an AD subnet of 10.10.0.0/16 and assign it to our primary site, and another subnet as 10.10.41.0/24 and assign it to a secondary site. Will AD treat a client address of, say, 10.10.41.104 as a client on the secondary site, or will it default to the more general primary subnet? The reason I ask is we now have a need for a second AD site (I can see all the enterprise folks grinning now) and we have quite a number of other subnets that I'd have to manually enter if this is not the case. I don't mind doing it, but I was curious either way. Brian Cline, Applications Developer Department of Information Technology G&P Trucking Company, Inc. 803.936.8595 Direct Line 800.922.1147 Toll-Free (x8595) 803.739.1176 Fax
