From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 12:54:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A8714E17 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990527195622.QKUY7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>; Fri, 28 May 1999 07:56:22 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Jasper O'Malley" Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:54:03 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse networking... Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990527195622.QKUY7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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