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- From: rv@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Ruediger Volk)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
- Subject: Re: Multiple class 'C' addresses versus single class 'B'
- Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:28:11 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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- In article <1993Jan23.002517.22830@nosc.mil>, kent@humu.nosc.mil (Kent K. Kuriyama) writes:
- > I would like to get comments regarding the problems of using multiple
- > class 'C' addresses vice a single class 'B' addresses. Obviously
- > this is an issue because the NIC is hesitant in granting the rapidly
- > diminishing number of class 'B' addresses.
- >
- > We intend to have approximately 2000 IP addresses with typically 50
- > address per sub-net. Using class 'C' address we are looking at 40 sub-
- > nets or approximately 10 'C' addresses.
- don't forget that in both the host and the subnet field of an IP address
- you should NOT use the values 0 and -1 (all ones).
- This implies that the subnetting a class C network can be done in only
- the folowing ways:
-
- bit split # of subnets max # addr/subnet total max # usable addrs
-
- 0:8 1 254 254
- 1:7 ** illegal **
- 2:6 2 62 124
- 3:5 6 30 180
- 4:4 14 14 196
- 5:3 30 6 180
- 2:6 62 2 124
- 7:1 ** illegal **
- 0:8 ** nonsense **
-
- Of course things look different when CIDR is fully available (i.e. you
- use a supernet of 2*n class Cs and can ignore the 24:8 split of class C).
-
- > Questions:
- >
- > 2) Someone mentioned that linking up a bunch of 'C' addresses will
- > require the use of some external gateway protocol (make sense - we need
- > to route between class 'C' networks) on our routers. Is this a big
- > deal? Is EGP a feature only available on expensive routers?
- no, for routing within your "routing domain" you can use the same interior
- gateway protocols as you would use within a single B. Exterior gateway
- protocols like EGP (if starting to use one, better try going for BGP)
- are only needed between different autonomous systems - i.e. network compounds
- with a separate administratgion and routing policy.
-
- > 3) Are there any advantages to getting a contiguous set of class 'c'
- > addresses (e.g. 192.101.190,191,192, . . . etc)?
- YES; supernetting - need a power of two with a common prefix
-
- > 4) Would there be any problem in implementing a single domain name
- > DNS over multiple class 'C' addresses?
- NO - IP addresses and domain names are two COMPLETELY independant name spaces!
- The domain name service usually is used to provide a mapping between (some)
- IP addresses and domain names; this mapping can be defined in any way you want.
-
- --
- Ruediger Volk
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