Subnetting errors rarely announce themselves as "bad math." More often, two devices make different decisions about whether a destination is local, a route points at the wrong boundary, or a cloud/VPN design contains two networks that cannot be unambiguously routed. These five failure modes are worth recognizing in live configurations. 1. The two hosts use different masks Consider Host A at 192.168.10.10/24 and Host B at 192.168.11.10/16 . A calculates that B is outside 192.16...