Hey Terry, great to have you posting here. I'm a big fan of a some of
your articles I have come across. Are you writing anywhere regularly?

-Marc

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Terry Slattery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> That matches the 10.20.4.0 subnet and 10.30.4.0 subnet, but it won't match
> any hosts on either subnet, because the last octet is 0 and the wild-card
> bits are zero (must match).
>
> I was looking for a wildcard mask of 0.10.0.255 to match all hosts on either
> subnet.
>
> If you went further, you could have also come up with 0.255.0.255, to match
> 10.x.4.x.
>
>        -tcs
>
> On 4/12/11 12:15 AM, Di Bias, Steve wrote:
>>
>> Terry is right, I may have jumped the gun with the inverse mask statement
>> (although it's mentioned this way in many documents). For Terry's experiment
>> let's assume we want to match the voice vlan for buildings  20 and 30
>> (10.20.4.0 and 10.30.4.0). By breaking this down into binary and using
>> AND/OR logic we can easily come up with our answer
>>
>> 00001010.00010100.00000100.0000000
>> 00001010.00011110.00000100.0000000
>> ----------------------------------
>> 00001010.00010100.00000100.0000000 = 10.20.4.0
>>
>> 00001010.00010100.00000100.0000000
>> 00001010.00011110.00000100.0000000
>> ----------------------------------
>> 00000000.00001010.00000000.0000000 = 0.10.0.0
>>
>> So the "wildcard" mask to match both buildings would be 0.10.0.0
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Steve Di Bias
>> Network Engineer - Information Systems
>> Valley Health System - Las Vegas
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terry Slattery
>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:58 PM
>> To: Jay Taylor
>> Cc:<[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] offset-list and wild card mask
>>
>> Good answer, Jay. For everyone who thinks that the wild-card mask is the
>> opposite of the subnet mask...
>>
>> I have a set of subnets that I need to match. The first octet is 10. The
>> second octet is a building number. The third octet identifies the subnet in
>> each building, and is "4" for the voice subnet, which is what I want to
>> match.
>>
>> Build a wild-card mask that matches
>> 10.x.4.x
>>
>> Is it the inverse of the subnet mask?
>>
>>        -tcs
>>
>> On 7/22/64 2:59 PM, Jay Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Offset list is used to increment the metric of certain routes.
>>>
>>> In a wildcard mask a binary 0 means the bit must match and a binary 1
>>> means it does not have to match. This is reverse logic compared to a
>>> normal subnet mask. Also, unlike a subnet mask the 1's and 0's do not
>>> need to be contiguous.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Uli<[email protected]>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Expert,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone can explain to me about offset-list as I kind of confused
>>>> with it. also, in my opinion that wild card mask is reverse of subnet
>>>> mask, but someone told me it isn't ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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