First draft of the European Template for IP number requests

> Looking at all possible subnet masks, you get:
> 
> subnet mask  |  # subnets | # hosts/subnet | total # hosts | usage
> -------------+------------+----------------+---------------+------
>     1:7      | not allowed|		     |		     |
>     2:6      |     2      |      62 	     |	 124	     | 49 %
>     3:5      |     6	    |      30	     |	 180	     | 71 %
>     4:4      |    14	    |	   14	     |	 196	     | 77 %
>     5:3      |    30	    |	    6	     |	 180	     | 71 %
>     6:2      |    62	    |	    2	     |	 124	     | 49 %
>     7:1      | not allowed|		     |		     |

Just one probably silly question - why should the subnet mask 1:7 not
be allowed? If I get it right, you speak of netmask like 255.255.255.128.
Which should let you have two subnets of 126 hosts each.

Daniel