>
> I don't know if this is the proper place for this but I will give it a try.
>
No, but what the hell. :-)
> I am setting up a Livingston Firewall router and want to use only a small
> portion of one of our subnets for the unprotected host/hosts. It has been
> suggested that I use a 5-bit subnet for this. Is this feasible? If so does
> that mean I would use 1-32 for hosts on that subnet? Then what subnet mask
> would I use.
>
>
A 5 bit mask (255.255.255.248 with a classful 'c' network address) would
yield 30 useable subnets with 6 useable hosts on each subnet. Unless
you decide to use IP subnet 0, then the first subnet would remain
'reserved' and the first useable host address would be .9.
- paul
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Paul Ferguson Dulcius Ex Asperis
US Sprint tel: 703.689.6828
Managed Network Engineering internet: paul @
hawk .
sprintmrn .
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Reston, Virginia USA http://www.sprintmrn.com
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