On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:35:07PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> [noncontiguous netmasks]
> 
> I'm missing the key point.  Why would anybody want to use
> them?  What are they good for?

splitting a network without renumbering some of the machines.

e.g., consider 


prefix.1 prefix.2 prefix.3 
prefix.5 prefix.6 prefix.7
prefix.9 prefix.10 prefix.11
prefix.13 prefix.14

is split by a router such that the 1,2,3,9,10,11 machines make one group
and the others the other, you can do that by using a netmask of... *thinking
hard* 255.255.255.244

Regards,
	-is

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