😃 👍 -----Original Message----- From: Public <public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au> On Behalf Of Karl Auer via Public Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2024 11:19 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Cc: Karl Auer <kauer@nullarbor.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] /31 Deployments for Point-to-Point links On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 10:43 +1100, Mike Everest via Public wrote:
/31 is not really a 'subnet' anyway, in the sense that a subnet is really just a conceptual structure for a broadcast domain. More properly, I prefer to call /31 an 'address range' instead of 'subnet'
If we are going to get pedantic, let's call it by its One True Name, which is "prefix length". All prefix lengths[1] are subnets, all subnets are address ranges, but not all address ranges are subnets. It's subnets all the way down :-) Regards, K. [1] Oh alright, not zero then. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au