Re: Routing problem

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:36:57PM -0000, Robert A Jenkins wrote:
> > For machines within the same subnet to work via an intermediate system, you
> > must add specific routes to the target machines with the intermediate as a
> > gateway. I set mine up in rc.local.
> 
> Well, they are not really on the same subnet then if an active
> intermediate is required. Can you change the subnet mask to the correct
> value, which may even be 255.255.255.254? (I don't know that such
> a mask is actually supported to be honest..)

They would probably want .252 as .254, while most-likely a technically
correct netmask, has no room for any host addresses. :)