Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: awells@journalstar.com (Tony Wells) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A networking problem Message-ID: <199912101917.OAA63506@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <38513634.230E57A4@journalstar.com> from Tony Wells at "Dec 10, 1999 11:19:48 am"
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Tony Wells wrote, > Alex Charalabidis wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tony Wells wrote: > > > > > I can't ping the router or any of the other machines on the subnet. > > > This is a machine I'm colocating which happens to be about 50 miles from > > > my present location so it's kind of a pain to troubleshoot. I don't > > > need to run routed since I just need to get to the gateway do I? Is > > > there anyway that the router could be poisoning my routing table? > > > > > > I also noticed that entry in the routing table: > > > 206.103.113.194/27 link#1 UC > > > > > > With a netmask of 255.255.255.224, shouldn't it show: > > > 206.103.113.194/29 link#1 ? (I'm assuming that the numbers after the / > > > are the number of bits allocated to the host address.) > > > > > Actually, it should be 206.103.113.192/27 > > What are the numbers after the / in the IP address of netstat -rn? I > looked in the manpage and on the web but haven't been able to find any > information. The number of bits in the network mask. Your netmask is 255.255.255.224 which is 0xffffffe0. If we count the bits in that from the left byte-by-byte, we get, 8 + 8 + 8 + 3 = 27 So, any IP address where ((your_ip&netmask)==(other_ip&netmask)) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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