On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:15:58 +0200, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >In short the GATEWAY statement is completely ignorant of CIDR. ... And if you are doing dynamic routing rather than defining static routes you run into OMPROUTEs ambivalence towards CIDR - fully supporting it in some situations, completely ignoring it for others (Wild-carded IP addresses can wild-carded only for a whole class of addresses.) and maliciously appying class logic in others (Undeclared interfaces are given a subnet mask for the class associated with their IP address. If you allow OMPROUTE to advertise that subnet, this MVS TCP/IP stack becomes your network's storm drain for that class subnet. What fun!). BTW, there is a SHARE requirment requesting IBM improve the wild-card issue. It's open for voting right now so if you are a member of SHARE, sign up for the Networking Requirements, and vote. (Vote on the other 7 requirements, too.) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
