Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:12:35 -0400 From: "Kutulu" <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <008d01c14535$4c058d20$9f230f0a@educate.com> References: <006401c14534$55e213a0$0a01a8c0@den2>
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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> Subject: RE: 127/8 continued > :: Shouldn't that be 16,777,213 (take off 127.255.255.255 and > :: 127.0.0.1 as > :: well since we were talking about *other* addresses)? > > Ahhh... good catch. I guess you'd have to take off 127.1.0.0 and > othersuch like addresses as well. Not really. With a subnet length of /8, 127.1.0.0 is a perfectly valid address. Only the addresses where the *entire* host portion is 0 bits or 1 bits are reserved. --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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