On 3/28/06, Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, after looking back through the thread, I see Ben has already > pretty much answered the above. ;)
"Repetition is the very soul of the net." -- from alt.config > Paul is using a network that is restricted to using a /19 netmask for > addressing, but it is really using a /16 when configured. So, he wants > to limit address to 10.0.32.0/19 but needs to configure broadcast and > network addresses for 10.0.32.0/16. Why he needs to do that, I have no > idea and wouldn't need to know. ;) Well... okay... but it's the *why* that makes me wonder. :) I hope it's something interesting, and not just that he's trying to say that he's been assigned the addresses in the range 10.0.32.0/19 on the 10.0.0.0/16 network. That would be *so* boring. :) > It seems to me that the answer is that your IP addresses are limited to > the range of 10.0.32.0 to 10.0.63.255 with 10.0.0.0 being the network > address and 10.255.255.255 being the broadcast address, no? Well, /16 means the first two octets are the network portion and the last two octets are the host portion. So the broadcast address (with CIDR) would be 10.0.255.255. Of course, 10.0.32.0/16 would normally be written 10.0.0.0/16, because, again, the third octet is part of the host portion. The host portion is really irrelevant when talking about network numbers. Convention says we fill the host portion with zeros. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
