Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:54:03 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse networking... Message-ID: <19990527195622.QKUY7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9905271330080.29882-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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On 27 May 99, at 13:41, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > > Another reason Microsoft sucks...whilst attempting to set an IP address on > a NIC in a Win98 box to 10.4.100.255/255.255.0.0, I encountered the error > message: > > "The specified IP address is not valid." > > I say we take a collection to send the Microsoft programmers to a class on > IP subnetting. OK. I'll be the lamb to the slaughter. I understood that ip addresses ending in either 0 or 255 were not to be used. They are both used as broadcast addresses. Is that correct? If the above is correct, why is the IP address supplied above correct? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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