Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:50:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: DanB <longterm@chatusa.com> Cc: freebsd <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7 Message-ID: <20030708032058.GH24420@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0A32A6.F316255@chatusa.com> References: <3F0A32A6.F316255@chatusa.com>
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--SUk9VBj82R8Xhb8H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 8 July 2003 at 2:55:34 +0000, DanB wrote: > inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a > netmask convertor to change 0xfffffffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody > know of a good one? Aaah. The other answers explained the question, which wasn't immediately obvious. Note that you can do things like this as well: ifconfig xl0 205.238.xx.1/29 That gives you 29 bits of net mask, which is what you have above. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --SUk9VBj82R8Xhb8H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/CjiaIubykFB6QiMRAuzGAJ9GvZLsBpz9Hu1r/EqDZcu1jvz+agCY/Dv3 9JmH830131eU1vEnu4kmhA== =SQw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUk9VBj82R8Xhb8H--
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