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Date:      Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:50:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Forum <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What the hell is DUP!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411214715.433A-100000@uniqsite.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980412135937.F24376@freebie.lemis.com>

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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.





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