From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 27 14:20:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28563159EC for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id PAA31745 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:22:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:22:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse networking... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 May 1999, 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." Even better, I just checked and had no problem assigning the address 192.168.1.127 with a netmask of 255.255.255.128 to an interface. As near as I can tell, the only check performed is whether or not there's a 255 in the final octet or the address, since 10.4.255.100/255.255.0.0 and 192.168.1.0/255.255.0.0 both work fine. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message