From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 24 13:13:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pr0n.kutulu.org (pr0n.kutulu.org [151.196.107.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8697737B40A for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kutulu ([64.212.128.3]) by pr0n.kutulu.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f8OFHW747334 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:17:41 GMT (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Message-ID: <008d01c14535$4c058d20$9f230f0a@educate.com> From: "Kutulu" To: References: <006401c14534$55e213a0$0a01a8c0@den2> Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:12:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Juha Saarinen" Subject: RE: 127/8 continued > :: Shouldn't that be 16,777,213 (take off 127.255.255.255 and > :: 127.0.0.1 as > :: well since we were talking about *other* addresses)? > > Ahhh... good catch. I guess you'd have to take off 127.1.0.0 and > othersuch like addresses as well. Not really. With a subnet length of /8, 127.1.0.0 is a perfectly valid address. Only the addresses where the *entire* host portion is 0 bits or 1 bits are reserved. --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message