<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br>This group is full of it. Knowledge, that is. So who better to ask these questions....<br><br>I've got a subnet, say 192.168.45.0/26, of which I want to allow only a small group of that subnet to access a particular host. I'm able to reserve the top end, which falls into another subnet, 192.168.45.56/29.<br><br>So, the first network, 192.168.45.0 has network id .0, first host .1, last host .62, b/cast .63<br>And, the subgroup would be, network id .56, first host .57, last host .62, b/cast .63<br><br>I'm thinking, as long as I don't use 56 and 63, I can do this.<br><br>The hosts I will be protecting will be voice gateways, and collaboration servers, e.g. callmanager, connection, etc.<br><br>Would there be a time where the hosts being protected would interpret the incorrect broadcast address? I don't see how. But I could be missing something.<br><br>Lelio<br><br><br><div><span name="x"></span>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<br>Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<br>University of Guelph<br><br>519‐824‐4120 Ext 56354<br>lelio@uoguelph.ca<br>www.uoguelph.ca/ccs<br>Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<br>Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1<span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></body></html>