Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:08:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" <elh@outreachnetworks.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT Gateway IP is Broadcast IP Message-ID: <20020119150822.B9510@outreachnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01c1a11f$defc0140$1505010a@daylight.net>; from john@day-light.com on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:31:13PM -0600 References: <000b01c1a11f$defc0140$1505010a@daylight.net>
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At a certain time, now past, John Brooks spake thusly:
> The other day I came across a Win2k network that has assigned their gateway
> IP to their broadcast IP. Seemed strange to me. Is this normal in a windows
> environment?
>
> network: x.x.x.96/29
> gateway: x.x.x.103
> broadcast: x.x.x.103
I'd say that setup isn't normal anywhere.
> The users are complaining about "slowness" out through their dsl. Could that
> be part of the cause?
Yes...fix the network setup and they should see an improvement.
~elh
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Eric L. Howard e l h @ o u t r e a c h n e t w o r k s . c o m
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