Simple static route question

[rmott19811]

Hello All -

First off I want to say thank you to everyone helping out, this is a great community from what I've seen thus far.  All my google searches bring me here :)

So I built my lab, trying to study for my CCNA and for some reason, perhaps I'm over-analyzing, but I cannot wrap my head around this.  The topology is attached (JPEG) and I've labeled mostly everything.  When I assign an ip / subnet between 2 routers, who gets the .1 and who gets the .2?  Does it matter?

Like I said, I could be over-thinking this..  either that or I've just been up way too long.  Any help is greatly appreciated guys/gals, thank you very much.  Please let me know if I've left out any pertinent information and I'll be glad to fill in the blanks.

Thanks

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

When I assign an ip / subnet between 2 routers, who gets the .1 and who gets the .2?  Does it matter?

It does not matter. Usually if you are doing this in a large environment and you have many routers/switches with /30 subnets you want to adopt an schema for yourself, so it is easy to remember.

For example; some providers always assign the lower number to their own interface and the higher number goes to the customer router.  Other than this it really does not matter.

HTH

[rmott19811]

Reza -

Thanks so much for your response, makes sense!

[Reza Sharifi]

Glad to help and thanks for the rating!

[kwbrefo]

Hi, 

On a point to point connection it does not matter which interface gets the ip address .1 or .2. but I should mention also that your subnetting is inefficient. Point to Point connections typically have a subnet mask of /30 which allows only 2 usable hosts. 

[rmott19811]

Gotcha, so I'd just go to each interface and assign a /30 to each I would assume.

I'm still drilling subnetting hard so I'm still not best at it.

I appreciate your prompt response, thanks!

[kwbrefo]

Yes you can assign /30 only for the point to point. If you want you can reupload your jpg and I can verify your subnetting.

[rmott19811]

Awesome thanks kwbrefo!  I'm gonna catch some z's right now but I will do this first thing in the morning!

[rmott19811]

Here's the new topology.  Basically I changed all subnets to /30's instead of /24's