Still Subnetting After All these Years…
Yes…I can STILL subnet!!!
Ok, so you may laugh, but it’s not something I actually have to do all the time at work. We have pretty much everything except links bewteen routers and a few random devices set up with nice and easy /24 networks. (I know, lazy and wasteful maybe, but easy on the brain.) being confronted with a weird CIDR notation like /27 and then having to compute the network number and subnet mask in dotted decimal was a bit daunting at first, but very quickly it all came back and I was subnetting easy-peasy and setting up my EIGRP lab to work through a couple of the examples in Routing TCP/IP. My new favorite command is now “redistribute connected.” Sweet.
The only problem I ran into was that one of my stub networks just would not get into the EIGRP topology table…it was stubborn I guess. The network command just wouldn’t work, but “redistribute connected” sure did. Now I’m left to wonder “why?” I brought in one of my coworkers that I refer to as “The Route-Master” just to take a look. He couldn’t find anything wrong with my addressing or my EIGRP network statement. I may post the topology and config up here later on to see if anyone else can poke any holes in it.
Overall, I like the ease of configuration of EIGRP…it’s been a relaxing week before diving into OSPF!
