From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 21:51:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15122 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (timm@uniqsite.com [206.14.149.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15040 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Received: from localhost (timm@localhost) by uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00449; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:50:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Moony To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Forum Subject: Re: What the hell is DUP! In-Reply-To: <19980412135937.F24376@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > No, I don't see any problem with your ISP. I'm sure when they said > "any way you want", they meant "any way that works". In particular, > though, you can't assign another name without first registering it. > Well, you can, but it won't work. Any I suspect that you might have > set your broadcast address on IP 41 incorrectly. If that's your > block, your broadcast address should be 206.14.149.63, and your net > mask should be 255.255.255.192. Is that what you have? > > Greg > > Greg: I tried to changed the netmask from 206.14.149.32 to 255.255.255.192 and that worked. All this time I've been confused by netmask and broadcast address, is there any place where I can get super-charged? A book maybe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message