From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 6 08:03:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419773D8 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 08:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E123C2E0C for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 08:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07132FEBF2; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:53:40 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:date:date :in-reply-to:subject:subject:from:from:received:received :received; s=selector1; t=1375775619; x=1377590020; bh=gX68Gzal4 Vitx9N38mF6zXKDVUWEYURRtxk+xiyItJ0=; b=kkRd0waiQj0TBahr/okw+3b6P 0AH0cBy4XL5DemT2BM35QHF+tCUm+2naqxhCg6C3rf9vkztAMuV5f0ozjinqPfjx E+sjB/9TH5J+vqU3XqSFTQ3DXUiAJLz62eyVk6K0dH1YUWEjzM1YuIQtzWgTwjKw Llqy8l2L/AGo1JqNc8= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id QNkDshaHTNs0; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:53:39 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACBF6FEBF0; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:53:39 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id r767rd8o067221; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:53:39 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) From: Olivier Nicole To: s m Subject: Re: how define network with mask 8 for dhcp server? In-Reply-To: (message from s m on Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:59:44 +0430) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:53:39 +0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:03:24 -0000 Sam, > subnet 192.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 I know it is not the answer to your question, but you are wrong in your guess that 192.0.0.0/8 is all private IPs. Only 192.168.0.0/16 is. I know that for certain because my own IP starts with 192. If you want a full /8 private, you can only use 10.0.0.0/8 Bets regards, Olivier --