From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 19 12: 8:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proverbs.outreachnetworks.com (proverbs.outreachnetworks.com [65.196.249.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65B5B37B402 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:08:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21214 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 20:08:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO phoncella.outreachnetworks.com) (64.108.62.145) by proverbs.outreachnetworks.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 20:08:29 -0000 Received: (from elh@localhost) by phoncella.outreachnetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0JK8N010065 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:08:23 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: phoncella.outreachnetworks.com: elh set sender to elh@outreachnetworks.com using -f Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:08:22 -0500 From: "Eric L. Howard" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT Gateway IP is Broadcast IP Message-ID: <20020119150822.B9510@outreachnetworks.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <000b01c1a11f$defc0140$1505010a@daylight.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <000b01c1a11f$defc0140$1505010a@daylight.net>; from john@day-light.com on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:31:13PM -0600 Favorite-Scripture: Romans 8:18 Theocratic-Rule-Advocate: http://www.crossmovement.com Registered-Secret-Agent: Agent Double-Naught Seven Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.OutreachNetworks.com 313.297.9900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advocate of the Theocratic Rule To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message