IPs , Netmasks and Broadcast.
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Thu Sep 15 08:12:47 PDT 2005
Eric Schuele wrote:
> Grant Peel wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Now I am really confused.
>>
>> Up until this morning I thought I had a good handle on when I need to
>> use the real Netmask and Broadcast.
>>
>> For example, If I have 3 servers, and my upline asigns me a block of
>> 128 addresses, for the first ip used (from this block) on each server,
>> I would need to specify the IP, true netmask and a broadcase. Then,
>> when using more IPs from that block, I would use a 255.255.255.255
>> netmask and a broadcast equal to the IP.
>
>
> Google
> CIDR
> IP Netmask
> IP broadcast
>
> HTH.
>
Hmmm... I may have had a tad too much coffee this morning. I think I
read over your OP too quick and probably have not answered the question
properly. Its all good reading... but probably not applicable to your
problem.
>>
>> Today, I was in this exact position where I was tring to add an (the
>> first one one THAT machine, from that block) IP from a block that is
>> almost completely used up on another server, and the one I was adding
>> it to would not take it. When I tried adding it with a 255.255.255.255
>> netmask, and a broadcast eaqual to the amount of IPs from that block -
>> it worked.
>>
>> this is on a FreeBSD 4.10 machine.
>>
>> WHich way is correct for 4.7 and higher?
>>
>> -Grant
>>
>>
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Regards,
Eric
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