Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:52:08 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, wollman@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Broadcast, Netmask, and other such information Message-ID: <199602152052.NAA01312@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9602152037.AA13188@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199602152029.NAA01202@rocky.sri.MT.net> <9602152037.AA13188@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> 10.5.5.31 is not a valid host address. (Neither is 10.5.5.0, which > you correctly avoided using; it means ``this host''.) Currently, we are allocated an entire class C (204.182.243.255), and I get the same results when I ping '204.182.243.0' as when I ping the broadcast address, '204.182.243.255'. I always understood that '127.0.0.1' meant ``this host''. Nate
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