ro add 44.136.0/24 problem.

["Carl Makin" <makinc@hhcs.gov.au>]

> It looks like there may be a problem in the "route" or "rip" code.

> If you do the following add
> route add 44.136.0/24 ax0

> RIP broadcasts it as "44.136/16".  As 44.136.0/24 is the class c

> I always thought this was a problem with the concept of RIP, it
> doesn't transmit the applicable subnet mask along with the subnet.

Oh.  It's a problem with the RIP spec. :-(  Well I may have to
shift the local net to 44.136.1.n. :-(  (Luckily there are only
36 numbers allocated.)

Are there any ways around it?  (Aside from adding the route
private?)

Carl.