netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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
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