Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:55:36 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> Subject: Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7? Message-ID: <20080304095536.GB77655@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080304095246.GA77655@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200803040619.m246Jbja018523@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20080304000320.msp5bfrytc0wsowg@webmail.1command.com> <20080304095246.GA77655@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:46AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > If you put a machine on that network as 192.168.1.200, and give it a > netmask of 255.255.255.0, it will respond to any packets destined to > 192.168.1.100 (obviously), but will also respond to packets destined to > the broadcast address (192.168.1.255). Argh. The line: "... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.100 ..." Should have read: "... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.200 ..." -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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