Thus spake Ed
It they did a /30 that would give 2 usable and then the static IP to route to would be the third.
As long as they don't have 3 seperate boxes to put behind it.
Problem being...with typical routing setup, you've got one of two scenarios...either the eth0 of the routing box is the static that's assigned "to route to" (using your terminology to help clarify here). Meaning that the static is pulled out of the /30 block, meaning there's only one other address available...one short... Or, you have the static IP "to route to" :), and then the /30 block has to have one of the IP's assigned to the eth0 of the same box doing the routing which means you've got two IP's assigned to the same box...still one short. :/ You could do a couple of /30's and have multiple IP's assigned to the eth0 card of the router....but then you're still chewing up the same amount of space as a single /29 does with fewer useable addresses...it does have the upside of letting you assign non-contiguous addresses if your IP space is that fragmented. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.