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From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems after IP change
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Agreeing with the below query, if 66.92.216.2 is the ip, the broadcast
would be 66.92.216.3 if you had a 255.255.255.252 netmask, or
66.92.216.255 if you had a 255.255.255.0 netmask.

Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity


On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, jason wrote:
>
> > ifconfig dc0 inet 66.92.216.2 66.92.216.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Out of curiosity, why are you making the broadcast address the first host
> address in the network?
>
> > I was able to ping any 66.92.216.0 address but unable to ping past that
> > point.
>
> Have you got the default gateway on each BSD box set to the near-side IP
> address of the local router (which I'm going to guess is 66.92.216.1)?
>
> Cheers,
> Mick
>
>
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