Netmask issue
Jeff Wieland
wieland at purdue.edu
Fri Oct 9 11:23:35 UTC 2009
Ray Phillips wrote:
>> What I do is to *never* use an "option subnet-mask" statement, and
>> just let the subnet statement handle it, *unless* you have a subnet
>> that needs a different mask, and then (and only then) I assign it with
>> "option subnet-mask".
>
> What's an example of a situation where a client would need to be given a
> subnet mask different from the one specified on the subnet line?
>
> I wonder if the broadcast-address option has to be supplied, since it
> can be inferred from the subnet and netmask values?
>
>
> Ray
I've seen setting the netmask to a different value done to attempt
to limit the broadcast traffic for devices that were behind a NAT
device, and that only needed to communicate with that NAT device.
I don't know how successful that was.
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