[PLUG] mixing netmasks

[Brian Beattie]

Somebody I know is proposing to mix netmasks on the same physical
network.  That is to say all machines that are supposed to talk to each
other (servers and clients of those servers) would be in 10.1.1.0/24.
Engineering machines (prototypes, machines under test) would be in
10.1.0.0/16 in the 10.1.2 range and engineering workstations, which
needed to talk to the servers and the test macnines would be in the
10.1.1.0 range with a netmask of 255.255.0.0

I told him that that was a bad idea, and I think it would cause
problems.  Am I talking through my hat again? (most of the machines on
the 10.1.1.0/24 net are M$ boxen and most of the engineering
workstations are Linux.
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