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What subnet mask (in an IPv4 address space) is suitable for a WAN topology?

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Question added by joseph reaidy , Project Supervisor , Guardia Systems SAL
Date Posted: 2017/06/10
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by joseph reaidy , Project Supervisor , Guardia Systems SAL

it depends on the design of the WAN topology. If the WAN connections are point-to-point, a 30 bit mask (255.255.255.252) will work fine. If the WAN topology uses a point to mutipoint topology, the subnet mask will depend on the number of connections in the topology.

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