From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 17:47:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3440837B8BA for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA26505; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:16:35 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:16:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us, kas@orient.net.ru, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netmasks (was: Trouble with Digital 21140A) Message-ID: <20000411101635.C26373@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200004101239.PAA16677@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200004101239.PAA16677@hades.hell.gr> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Monday, 10 April 2000 at 15:39:16 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> From: Bryan Bradsby >> >>> Don't invent net masks. They need to be the same for all systems on >>> the net, >> >> Agreed. I did not mean to suggest the use of a bogus netmask. >> >>> and 255.255.255.240 is decidely unusual. >> >> Unusual, but works for me at home. > > What's wrong with it? > > $ echo obase=16\;240 | bc > F0 > > Just a nice and clean 16-host subnet. There's nothing "wrong" with it. But Bryan appeared to suggest that this non-standard netmask would solve the problems. Without knowing something about the network, you can't decide that, and the default value is more likely to be correct. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message