From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 13:57:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22927 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:57:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thor.afnetinc.com (thor.afnetinc.com [206.40.232.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22915 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@efinley.com) Received: from pm3-0-ip34.afnetinc.com ([206.40.232.241]) by thor.afnetinc.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zi3yK-0000pR-00; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:56:40 -0700 From: efinley@efinley.com (Elliot Finley) To: Dan Busarow Cc: Gold Fish , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netmask matter Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:58:00 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@efinley.com Message-ID: <3659da1d.18138900@mail.afnetinc.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA22923 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Um,255.255.255.248 is the correct netmask for that subnet, but wouldn't the broadcast address be xxx.yyy.zzz.15? On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:09:25 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >> On 23-Nov-98 Gold Fish wrote: >> > >> > >> > I was assigned address from xxx.yyy.zzz.9 to xxx.yyy.zzz.13 but I can't >> > seem to make my home network work. >> > >> > The netmask I used was: xxx.yyy.zzz.0 I think it's incorrect. Can >> > someone point out the problem? > >The correct netmask for that subnet is 255.255.255.248 with a broadcast >address of xxx.yyy.zzz.14 > >Dan -- Later Science (efinley@efinley.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message