From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 01:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29817 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:04:59 -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 BAA29792 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:04:54 -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 RAA23967; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:34:43 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA01040; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:34:43 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980413173442.U28708@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:34:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Keith Woodworth , Tim Moony Cc: FreeBSD Questions Forum Subject: Re: What the hell is DUP! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Woodworth on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:25:07AM -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 Mon, 13 April 1998 at 0:25:07 -0700, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, 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? > > Why a netmask of 255.255.255.192? What book can I look in aobut netmasks? > Ive run into a few thing bout them lately and need *alot* more info about > them. You can get basic information as it related to FreeBSD from "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm), and more detailed information from "TCP/IP Network Administration", by Craig Hunt, from O'Reilly. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message