Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:02:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: James Gill <gill@topsecret.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my gateway is a gate, but not a way! Message-ID: <19990723160241.B11222@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199907230330.XAA14753@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 11:30:13PM -0400 References: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADMEHHCKAA.gill@topsecret.net> <199907230330.XAA14753@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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* Crist J. Clark (cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) [990723 09:51]: > James Gill wrote, > > .130 and .131 are on the internal half of the 255.255.255.192 subnet. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > OK, first point of confusion for me. If you have a mask like that, you > only can be using numbers from 0-63 (1-62 usable), right? Actually, it > would be more proper to say that you only have 62 host addresses to > work with; they need not start at 1. Correct, the .192 seperates a normal /24 into units of /26, or 64 ip addresses minus the network and broadcast addresses of course. Don't know if I misread what you meant up there in this context though, but the .192 also allows ranges like: 0-63, 64-127, 128-191, 192-255 But I think you knew that ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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