Unadministered subnet masks and Netview topology

[Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>]

This is a new one on me. Is anyone out there running with unadministered
masks on their hubs and switches?
I have a customer who only administers them on the routers because they use
proxy arp and therefore don't
need masks on end nodes. Of course Netview is drawing every hub, switch,
and server in the whole network
on the same class-B subnet. This makes it hard to associate a device with a
section of the network, to
say the least.

So has anyone come up with any clever solutions, or did you just break down
and apply the masks?

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking