From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 21:52:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15315 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22086; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:22:33 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA25028; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:22:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980412142232.G24376@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:22:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Tim Moony Cc: FreeBSD Questions Forum Subject: Re: What the hell is DUP! References: <19980412135937.F24376@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Moony on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:50:46PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message