Hi,
I hate IP unnumbered. It can become pure hell for management purposes. It can be
difficult to individually measure stats on links. In this day and age of private
addressing there should be easy ways of assigning addresses without the concern of IP
unnumbered.
Lets argue on this.
Teunis
Haobart, Tasmania
Australia
On Sunday, December 17, 2000 at 12:11:24 AM, Dave Swink wrote:
> Dyland,
>
> The benefit is conservation of IP address space. To address both ends of a
> point to point connection requires a subnet of 255.255.255.252; which is
> actually four addresses, wasting 50% for network and broadcast addresses.
> If you have a lot of point to point connections like this you end up using a
> lot of IP addresses. The alternative is to use the IP address of another
> interface on the router.
>
> However, this practice can make troubleshooting more difficult.
>
> Dave Swink
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Dyland Desmarais
> > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 2:27 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Re: Numbers . . . What numbers?
> >
> >
> > Which brings me back to my first question, what would be the benefit of
> > doing this.
> >
> > Dyland
> > ======================
> > It means you want use the ip of another (specified) interface, e.g. ip
> > unnumbered ethernet 0, as the ip of your serial interface.
> >
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> > arbiter; If
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> > - John Galt
> >
> >
> >
> > "Dyland Desmarais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote in message
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > Greetings all
> > >
> > > Could someone please shed some light on IP Unnumbered Serial Interfaces.
> > > From my BSCN book, I understand this is getting ip routing to work on a
> > > serial interface without specifying a specific ip to the serial
> > interface
> > > (using the ip unnumbered command)
> > >
> > > My question is why would anyone want to do this?
> > >
> > > thanx
> > >
> > >
> > > Dyland
> >
> >
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