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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:19:48 -0600
From:      Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A networking problem
Message-ID:  <38513634.230E57A4@journalstar.com>
References:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.9912101044550.2862-100000@earth.wnm.net>

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What are the numbers after the / in the IP address of netstat -rn?  I
looked in the manpage and on the web but haven't been able to find any
information.

Thanks,
Tony Wells

Alex Charalabidis wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tony Wells wrote:
> 
> > I can't ping the router or any of the other machines on the subnet.
> > This is a machine I'm colocating which happens to be about 50 miles from
> > my present location so it's kind of a pain to troubleshoot.  I don't
> > need to run routed since I just need to get to the gateway do I?  Is
> > there anyway that the router could be poisoning my routing table?
> >
> > I also noticed that entry in the routing table:
> > 206.103.113.194/27 link#1            UC
> >
> > With a netmask of 255.255.255.224, shouldn't it show:
> > 206.103.113.194/29 link#1 ?  (I'm assuming that the numbers after the /
> > are the number of bits allocated to the host address.)
> >
> Actually, it should be 206.103.113.192/27
> 
> -ac
> 
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