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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:22:32 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Forum <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What the hell is DUP!
Message-ID:  <19980412142232.G24376@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411214715.433A-100000@uniqsite.com>; from Tim Moony on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:50:46PM -0700
References:  <19980412135937.F24376@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980411214715.433A-100000@uniqsite.com>

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On Sat, 11 April 1998 at 21:50:46 -0700, Tim Moony wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> No, I don't see any problem with your ISP.  I'm sure when they said
>> "any way you want", they meant "any way that works".  In particular,
>> though, you can't assign another name without first registering it.
>> Well, you can, but it won't work.  Any I suspect that you might have
>> set your broadcast address on IP 41 incorrectly.  If that's your
>> block, your broadcast address should be 206.14.149.63, and your net
>> mask should be 255.255.255.192.  Is that what you have?
>
> I tried to changed the netmask from 206.14.149.32 to 255.255.255.192 and
> that worked.

Good.

> All this time I've been confused by netmask and broadcast address, is
> there any place where I can get super-charged?  A book maybe.

I was waiting for you to ask that :-) How about "The Complete
FreeBSD", second edition
(http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm)?

Greg


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