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Yes agreed, I think at some point it just becomes an exercise in semantics, and I don't want to overshadow the useful points trying to search out "whys". I saw another post where a user mentioned that Cisco previously allowed non-contiguous entries,...
"The purpose of wildcard masks is to identify which bits are significant (must match) and which bits are not important (do not need to match)". My issue: subnet masks do exactly this, and if we're saying in both cases, the bits on either side of th...
I'm referring to something like this scenario...I have two routers adjacent in area 0TEST-RTR21 <> TEST-RTR22For TEST-RTR21, I have several networks, but say I only want to participate/advertise the .0, .2, .4, and .6 interfaces/networks.Loopback0 4....
Thanks for pointing that out, I usually match all bits of the interface prefix "0.0.0.0" unless there's a need for a secondary to participate/etc, or I'm in a hurry and match on a full "classful" CIDR. One thing that bothers me though regarding OSPF...