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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: Routers, IP networks, and wide-area networks
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.142934.2932@bigsur.uucp>
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Reply-To: mussar@bnr.ca (G. Mussar)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <9103211614.AA22207@leo.md.interlink.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 14:29:34 GMT


In article <9103211614.AA22207@leo.md.interlink.com> cam@md.interlink.com (Chris Markle) writes:
>Folks,
>
>(Please respond directly to me and I will summarize for the net.)
>
>When IP routers are connected to each other via X.25 networks, is the X.25
>network treated as a single IP network/subnetwork, or is each "point-to
>point" link (ie. X.25 virtual circuit) treated as a separate network/sub-
>network? (Or are the "links" not treated as networks at all?)
>
...
>Would the X.25 network be assigned a single network number, say 192.1.4, and
>each router would have an X.25-side IP address of 192.1.4.x? Or would each
>"link" (VC) between each router have network numbers assigned to it (eg.
>R-a <-> R-b is 192.1.4, R-a <-> R-c is 192.1.5, and R-b <-> R-c is 192.1.6)?

I have a very small setup and I assign the X.25 network one subnet. Each
router X.25 interface is assigned an IP address from that one subnet. It
works for me, but then again, I might be doing everything non-standard.
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