Setting up subnets
Subnetworking becomes an important feature as your organization's networking
needs grow. Subnetworking lets you divide up your pool of Internet Protocol
version 4 (IPv4)
addresses so you can split those addresses across several
physical networks within your organization.
This section describes how to assign IPv4
addresses and network masks to
implement subnetworking for UnixWare® 7 systems.
NOTE:
The introduction of IPv6 greatly simplifies the configuration
and administration of organizational subnets.
Both global and site-local IPv6 addresses define a 16-bit field
that allows you to configure up to 65,536 subnets at a site. See
``Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)''
for more information.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.3 - 30 October 2002