On Tuesday, 06/01/2010 at 04:26 EDT, Aria Bamdad <[email protected]> wrote: > You can have multiple subnets on one segment. For example, you can have > 10.1.1.x and 192.168.1.x packets using the same segment of ethernet. There > is nothing that prevents you from doing it and it is not uncommon.
Multinetting is a Bad Idea, to be stomped out of existence and never mentioned again in polite company. Or, to quote The Robot, "Crush. Kill. Destroy." On a dumb shared-media devices (hubs), multinetting is indeed your only choice, but it suffers from overlapping broadcast domains and just isn't suitable for institutions. (What you do at home, stays at home, you know?) In the modern world, a network architect simply will not build such a network since the network security people will shut it down. Of course, if you don't *have* network security people.... :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
